Quotes about Mission

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

And so the unseen Lord of the eternal kingdom and of the church sends out ambassadors into this world, giving them a mission that is greater than that of any other, just as heaven is greater than earth, and eternity is greater than time. And the authority that this Lord gives these ambassadors is that much greater than all the authorities in this world.

The church must bear witness to Jesus Christ as living lord, and it must do so in a world that has turned away from Christ after knowing him.

The proper relation of the Church to the world cannot be deduced from natural law or rational law or from universal human rights, but only from the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The gospel is not to take the form of hole-in-the-corner sectarianism, it must be set forth by public preaching.

2 Corinthians 5:20: So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

We are not here to loll and frolic but to bring in a harvest for God.

On subsequent visits I expanded further on the life and ministry of Jesus

Thomas Paine remains just one of innumerable Christian missionaries whose contributions to science have been denied recognition by men of science.

The goal in Pietism was the service of God in ministry to the world.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.