Quotes about Mission
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.
- James Faust
If you are a believer, you don't have to go out and be a street evangelist.
- Jeremy Camp
Conversely, our duty is that we who confess Jesus Christ take hold of science as an instrument for propagating our faith-conviction.
- Abraham Kuyper
The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.
- Eugene Peterson
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
- Andrew Jackson
Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!
- Pope Benedict XVI
That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now ... which is significant for the world.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ.
- RC Sproul Jr.
If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.
- Randy Alcorn
Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.
- Randy Alcorn
Delay. Procrastinate. Postpone. This is our evangelism strategy.
- Randy Alcorn
An unholy world will never be won to Christ by an unholy church.
- Randy Alcorn