Quotes about Mission

Our commission is to compassionately reach out to those around us, invite them to join us in community, share the story of the gospel, make disciples, and gather them into families to follow Jesus together.

Here's the thing that can be difficult to wrap our minds around: If you make disciples, you always get the church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples.

Many Christian leaders spend their entire lives within the confines of the church campus and wonder why they see little breakthrough in the area of evangelism.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church.

Most of us have become quite good at the church thing. And yet, disciples are the only thing that Jesus cares about, and it's the only number that Jesus is counting.

If we can't live the sacred journey with Christ daily and are not actively drawing others into that journey—way outside the worship center or sanctuary and outside our stained-glass or silk-plant ghettos—we can't expect to do it in an hour on Sunday morning or Wednesday night.

Family on mission is how we stop thinking of discipleship as a task that we do and start living out discipleship as a way that we are.

The destiny of the Church is directly tied to how passionate she remains to her mission.

While the Bible clearly defines roles within the Church, the mission of the Church was intended to be shared by the whole body.

we should focus on people who don't know Jesus yet, but Jesus himself gave us the model for doing that: Disciple people.

Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause. If

The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem. If you know how to disciple people well, you will always get mission. Always.