Quotes about Mission

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

Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world — with the longing that God should act, and the faith that he ultimately will.

There should be no theology that does not relate to the mission of the church — either by being generated out of the church's mission or by inspiring and shaping it. And there should be no mission of the church carried on without deep theological roots in the soil of the Bible. No theology without missional impact; no mission without theological foundations.

Mission arises from the heart of God himself, and is communicated from his heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

If our mission is to share good news, we need to be good news people. If we preach transformation, we need to show some evidence of what transformation looks like.

the dangerous result is that theology proceeds without missional input or output, while mission proceeds without theological guidance or evaluation.

I have no mission. No one has.

Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.