Quotes about Mission

And the church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

Ministries that have it always have a clear vision

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Serving isn't something we do. A servant is who we're called to be.

As Elijah's mantle fell on Elisha and as other prophetic disciples sought to emulate their mentors, so the ascending Jesus empowered his church with the Spirit to carry on his mission to the ends of the earth (1:9—11).

On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.

You need to know how to put a mission together to victory!

The parable challenges us to clarify and claim our purpose and live it with absolute earnestness. Our ultimate purpose is Jesus Christ: to know Him, allow Him to love us, love Him in response, and love others as He has loved us. Each of us is called to live out that purpose in the unique circumstances and opportunities of our individual lives. That will mean several crucial things:

To know God and to make Him known.

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.