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.
— Mike Breen
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.
— Mike Breen
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.
— Mike Breen
The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church.
— Mike Breen
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.
— Mike Breen
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.
— Mike Breen
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.
— Mike Breen
The destiny of the Church is directly tied to how passionate she remains to her mission.
— Mike Breen
While the Bible clearly defines roles within the Church, the mission of the Church was intended to be shared by the whole body.
— Mike Breen
we should focus on people who don't know Jesus yet, but Jesus himself gave us the model for doing that: Disciple people.
— Mike Breen
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
— Mike Breen
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.
— Mike Breen