Quotes about Outreach

Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.

Every church and believer must ask: What are we known for in the community? What do we represent?

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

our main real estate effort should be directed at getting out in front of expansion and letting the population build out to us. Just like in the beginning, we start around these small towns, people drive past our stores, get to know us, and become customers.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology