Quotes about Mission

If we all got kicked off the staff and the board, and an outside group (a group of leaders who were fearlessly committed to the mission of this church) took our place, what changes would they introduce?68 What's the first thing they would do? Who would they replace? What would they refuse to fund?

The minute you decide to get back in the business the church was commissioned for in the first place, you will pray for boldness.

It's a shame that so many churches are married to a designed-by-Christians-for-Christians-only culture. A culture in which they talk about the Great Commission, sing about the Great Commission, but refuse to reorganize their churches around the Great Commission.

The church is not here to win. Just the opposite. By every human measure, our Savior lost. On purpose. With a purpose.

I'm going to France, I'm going to Germany, and I'm going to go wherever God sends me and gives me the strength.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

After all, he is the great evangelist; we're merely the tools that he uses to fulfill his mission of redeeming the world, one individual at a time.

The church needs to be so clear about its identity as the body of Christ that everything it does generates a gravitational pull toward the heart.

The greatest task of a human being, your greatest mission in life? To find and sing your own song … to the glory of God.