Quotes about Mission

How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century.

Discipleship is for the sake of the world, not for the sake of the church. It is carried out in those situations where people spend their life.

We are bringing forth the sons and daughters of God to live their unique lives in this world to his glory. We must do all we can to suit the means we employ to that end.

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell — we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

Of his performing the miracle, Jesus told his disciples, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me… While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.

A new breed of ministers is rising up who will not wear out for the gospel. They are so caught up in passion, unity, and fullness that they run out and say, "World, here I come!" If they go into places where they get shot at, they are thrilled. If they do not get shot at, they are thrilled. If the place they go is filthy, they are thrilled. If it is clean, they are thrilled. Jesus is the joy set before them. He is their exceedingly great reward.

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME

The cost might be prison, for it were better that he should be ''the prisoner of the Lord'' for a few years than that his fellow men should be the devil's prisoners in hell forever.

Yet again in writing to a friend of John Smith he says, "I have often seen him come downstairs in the morning after several hours in prayer, his eyes swollen with weeping. He would soon introduce the subject of his anxiety by saying, 'I am a brokenhearted man; yes, indeed, I am an unhappy man, not for myself but on account of others. God has given me such a sight of the value of precious souls that I cannot live if souls are not saved. Oh give me souls, or else I die!

Authentic evangelism is lifting up the veil of what God is up to and manifesting the image of God in the world we are in.

I learned from my mother that there is a greatness in all of us, and that all of us are delivered to this world with a mission. I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.