Quotes about Purpose

A biblical theology of persecution creates a framework for understanding God's sovereign purpose in allowing the evil dominions of darkness to inflict suffering on His children.

It's time to live as people shaped by a gospel-centered worldview.

You have the Holy Spirit inside you, empowering you and enabling you to live on mission. In a world at its worst, live out your calling to be a Christian at your best in the age of outrage.

We don't own mission, and it is not ours to define.

God does not bless us so we can enjoy a prosperous lifestyle but to make His way known throughout the earth.

The impetus for our mission task is to understand that everything we are—everything that happens to us and everything that we do—is to align us with the kingdom purpose for God to be exalted among the nations.

Missional churches act faithfully and intentionally wherever God gives them opportunity.

Everything created in the world should be seen in the context of existing for God's glory.

We believe the church's purpose is to glorify God, not to make people happy. The church does not exist for believers or unbelievers; it exists for God's glory, for the equipping of believers, and the church is God's missionary in the world.

God is able to see beforehand all that happens in our lives and in the world, and He is able to establish a plan of how it can be used for His purpose and His glory. We are assured, "All the nations You have made will come and bow down before You, Lord, and will honor Your name" (Ps. 86:9).

Whether in music, or other things, one never knows what surprisingly satisfying things God has in His plan for the developed talent with is literally 'given' to Him to use or to lay aside.

God's purpose was not simply to deliver Israel from Pharoah's yoke. It was to bring them under His yoke.