Quotes about Mission

St. Paul did not baptize uninstructed converts apart from a system of mutual responsibility which ensured their instruction.

We should cease to talk of a native church as something to be attained after long years, or generations of probation. There would be native Churches at once which all men would recognize as native.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me (Isaiah 61:1).

Unfaithful in prayer, weak in the working of the Spirit, its witness to Christ a mere formality, and unfaithful to its worldwide mission—such are the marks of a powerless church.

And we — you, my reader, and I — may have the privilege of offering ourselves to God to labor in prayer and bring down these blessings to this earth.

One of the chief causes of the feeble life in the church is the mistaken idea that our happiness is the main object of God's grace. God's objective is far holier and far higher! He has saved us that we in turn might save others. Every believer is ordained to be the means of imparting to others the life he or she has received.

There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of true 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 any very radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.

Remember that you have been saved in order to serve, and you are on earth for the sole purpose of making God's love known to others.

proclaim when we evangelize, and it's what makes our efforts at evangelization fruitful.

Spreading the love of Jesus Christ is a duty of all Christians. We can't keep our faith unless we give it away.

Faith not only should be fixed upon the essence of Christ (as they say), but should also attend to his mission and power.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.