Quotes about Mission

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

Having the right goal is essential for Christian education to be effective. According

Yet the Church does not exist for the infirmary; the infirmary exists for the Church. The

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

Our mission is nothing less (or more) than participating with God in this grand story until he brings it to its guaranteed climax.

Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we get involved in. Or, as has been nicely put, it is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world but that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission-God's mission.14

The reality is, of course, as soon as you think seriously about it, that the mission field is everywhere, including your own street — wherever there is ignorance or rejection of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission — God's mission. Chris Wright