Quotes about Mission

The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission.

What we see from Jesus is that success isn't thousands of people and an ever-expanding church. Success is obedience to what the Father asks.

We need leaders who will step out of "managing church" and make discipling others their primary objective.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Your purpose can be fulfilled only during the time you are given on earth to accomplish it.

The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God up to?

Jesus died for our sins not so that we could sort out abstract ideas, but so that we, having been put right, could become part of God's plan to put his whole world right. That is how the revolution works.

resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

Because the early Christians believed that resurrection had begun with Jesus and would be completed in the great final resurrection on the last day, they believed that God had called them to work with him, in the power of the Spirit, to implement the achievement of Jesus and thereby to anticipate the final resurrection, in personal and political life, in mission and holiness.

According to the book of Revelation, Jesus died in order to make us not rescued nonentities, but restored human beings with a vocation to play a vital part in God's purposes for the world.

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of what it saw.

Those who belong to Jesus are called, here and now, in the power of the Spirit, to be agents of that putting-to-rights purpose.