Quotes About Mission

Many Orthodox are still fully convinced of their real superiority toward other peoples and of their salvific [redemptive] mission in the world." The same could be said of many Muslims' belief that Islam, too, can one day serve to rescue a morally rudderless and foundering West.

The focus of Paul's commission is "to call all the Gentiles" to Christ.

Evangelism was at the heart of Paul's gospel, but evangelism always leads to discipleship—to a Godward lifestyle.

You show me a church that does not have a constant flow of new Christians coming in, and I will show you a church that is stagnating. We in the church have a choice: evangelize or fossilize! The

It's been said, "There is one thing that believers and nonbelievers have in common: they are both uptight about evangelism," and that is true. When it comes to sharing the gospel, it seems we plan for failure far more often than success.

statistics indicate that 95 percent of all Christians have never led another person to Christ. For

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church, but He did say that the church should go to the whole world. Esther

Bill Hull has prophetically written, "The crisis at the heart of the church is a crisis of product.

The implication is that the church is not an optional afterthought for those who name Christ as their Lord. The church is central to God's plan of salvation.

We must acknowledge that the climate in the Western world makes any traditional form of sharing the gospel more difficult than in the recent past.

Jesus went about his ministry with a relaxed urgency.

Eugene Peterson puts this truth cleverly: "Jesus, it must be remembered, restricted nine-tenths of His ministry to twelve Jews, because it was the only way to reach all Americans."2

We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up.

I contend for this, that to gospelize a man is the greatest miracle in the world. All the other miracles are wrapped up in this one. To gospelize a man, or, in other words, to convert him, is a greater work than to open the eyes of the blind.

refused." "Two of us were assigned to kill you that summer. It was the first

In life there are three elements: mission, vision and values,' adds the prestigious Argentinian sports psychologist Liliana Grabín.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

All people have the mission of overcoming themselves. Anyone who is overcome by others has failed in his mission; anyone who fails in his mission will be overcome by others. If one overcomes oneself, other people don't notice; if, however, one overcomes others, then the sky turns red and the man in the streets calls the phenomenon progress.

When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall. It is at such a juncture that their chief mission is plainly visible, and that for a while the philosophy of number seems the only philosophy of history.

It was a mission of celebration: never had two Mexican-Americans flown up in space on the same mission, and never did burritos shine so brightly.

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.

The unqualified affirmation of the universal will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.

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