Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity. — Alan Hirsch
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity. — Francis Chan
Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. — Oswald J. Smith
The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory. — Robert Barron
The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship. — Lesslie Newbigin
The Church must send or the church will end. — Mendell Taylor
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. — Alan Hirsch
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. — David Bosch
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. — Francis Schaeffer
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued. — Reinhard Bonnke
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet. — David Livingstone
The church that does not evangelize will fossilize. — Oswald J. Smith
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. — Stanley Hauerwas
Short Missional Church Quotes
It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world. — Charles Spurgeon
Mission is both the announcement and the demonstration of the reign of God through Christ. — Michael Frost
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. — Charles Spurgeon
The local church is the hope of the world. — Bill Hybels
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way. — Stanley Hauerwas
A church without the broken is a broken church. — Ed Stetzer
The mission of your life should be to leave a better world behind than what you inherited.
Church Mission Quotes
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. — C. S. Lewis
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. — John Piper
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions. — John Mott
Surround yourself with those on the same mission as you
No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people. — David Penman
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church! — George H. Miley
God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business. — Leonard Sweet
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished If you're alive it isn't.
I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field. — John Wesley
Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them. — David Bryant
Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound. — Ed Stetzer
When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning? — Paul Washer
Missing Church Quotes
Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing. — John Betjeman
If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord. — Howard G. Hendricks
Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others. — Paul David Tripp
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us. — Michael Eric Dyson
"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?" — Charles Dickens
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. — Ernest Gaines
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
I've never missed anything I've given away. — Johnny Hunt
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me. — Win Butler
What a blessing to live to be missed. — Johnny Hunt
I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point. — David Platt
Christian Mission Quotes
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. — John Piper
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. — Hudson Taylor
Hell, there are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom — David Brainerd
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go — A. A. Allen
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give. — David Livingstone
This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth! — Keith Green
To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. — William Carey
Missions And Prayer Quotes
Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. — David Livingstone
You have one business on earth – to save souls. — John Wesley
One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism! — T.L. Osborn
Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom. — Mary Slessor
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone. — Hudson Taylor
Go straight for souls, and go for the worst. — William Booth
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them. — Hudson Taylor
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. — Henry Martyn
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity. — William Carey
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end! — David Brainerd
The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others. — Neal A. Maxwell
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. — Hudson Taylor
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. — Benjamin Rush
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations — Oswald Chambers
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti. — Tony Campolo
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness. — Adoniram Judson
Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do. — Charles Studd
I realized that my life was to be one of simple, childlike faith, and that my part was to trust, not to do. I was to trust in Him and He would work in me to do His good pleasure. From that time my life was different. — Charles Studd
How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves. — Charles Studd
Missionary Life Quotes
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. — David Livingstone
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. — Joseph Murphy
I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ — David Brainerd
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. — Oswald J. Smith
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.' — Adoniram Judson
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time. — Carl F. H. Henry
A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture. — Alan Hirsch
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me? — Annie Dillard
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. — Amy Carmichael
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians. — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Missionary Service Quotes
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! — David Livingstone
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. — J. Oswald Sanders
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. — Roland Allen
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service. — David Livingstone
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die! — David Livingstone
If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that. — David Sills
Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar. — L. Tom Perry
Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character. — ElRay L. Christiansen
Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity. — Thomas S. Monson
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize. — Pope Paul VI
There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life — Brigham Young
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ. — C. S. Lewis
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth. — Peter Kreeft
I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission. — Tullian Tchividjian
There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work. — Andy Murray
The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth. — Lesslie Newbigin
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective. — Alan Hirsch
The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world. — Oswald J. Smith
If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world. — Charles Spurgeon
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. — Arthur Middleton
Young men need a positive influence, especially when they don't have a strong male figure in their lives. They can be influenced by a great, godly man in the church, which gives men a great mission in the church to influence these kids. — Tony Evans
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves. — Alan Hirsch
Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church. — Charles Colson
The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty — Jürgen Moltmann
If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence. — David Bosch
The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity. — Pope Benedict XVI
Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church. — Kennon Callahan
Evangelization is a process of bringing the gospel to people where they are, not where you would like them to be. When the gospel reaches a people where they are, their response to the gospel is the church in a new place. — Paul Vincent Donovan
The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving. — John Piper
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries. — Michael Parenti
It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions. — David Jeremiah
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares. — Amy Carmichael
There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart. — Orson F. Whitney
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