Quotes about Missions
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
— John Piper
God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.
— David Platt
The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
— John Piper
Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.
— Tony Campolo
But none of the moderns have equalled the Moravian Brethren in this good work; they have sent missions to Greenland, Labrador, and several of the West-Indian Islands, which have been blessed for good. They have likewise sent to Abyssinia, in Africa, but what success they have had I cannot tell.
— William Carey
Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. With
— John Piper
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.
— John Piper
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
— John Piper
Ministry is simply you loving like Jesus. It is the Beatitudes manifest through your life. Missions are when you have the love of God so that He can demonstrate His very life and nature through you. Missions are intended to be the Sermon on the Mount played out on Earth.
— Heidi Baker
The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.
— John Piper
Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions
— John Piper