Quotes about Mission

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.

The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose for your life. You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Being "married for a mission" can revitalize a lot of marriages in which the partners think they suffer from a lack of compatibility; my suspicion is that many of these couples actually suffer from a lack of purpose.