Quotes About Mission

Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness

Jesus could have aborted his redemptive mission with one call for angelic backup. But Jesus wasn't trying to save himself. He was trying to save you.

Your dream is more than a dream. It's a calling. Sure, someone hired you and someone can fire you. But they didn't call you. God did. And if you forget that fact, you forget why you do what you do and Who you do it for.

Jesus didn't die on the cross to keep us safe. Jesus died to make us dangerous.

If you're in a spiritual slump, let me give you a prescription: go on a mission trip.33 There is no better or sure way of coming out of the cage of routine. It's a cure-all.

When God puts a passion in your heart, whether it be relieving starvation in Africa or educating children in the inner city or making movies with redemptive messages, that God-ordained passion becomes your responsibility. And you have a choice to make. Are you going to be irresponsibly responsible or responsibly irresponsible?

I just accept whatever mission you give me, salute, and go do it. That's what I signed up for. I remember that JFK said to bear any burden, pay any price to assure liberty.

It should be considered illegal for a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ not to be burning with passion for our Lord and burning with passion for the lost.

The vocation of every Christian is to live as a follower of Jesus today. In every aspect of life, in small and large acts, with family, neighbors and enemies, we are to seek to live out the grace and truth of Jesus. This is our vocation, our calling. Today.

When God's people fail to live our call, the church buries the gospel.

On our last mission - our "final exam" - we were airlifted to a remote region, and we parachuted directly into a hostile enclave. We had to subdue the enemy using hand-to-hand tactics like tae kwon do and pugil sticks, cut their hair in styles appropriate to their particular face shapes, and give them perms.

We must abandon the goals of perfect obedience and untainted innocence and begin to equip our children to see their place in God's family, their need for his grace, and their opportunity to embrace his mission.

But now, my people will starve." "Some might," Leyers said. "But I answer to a greater authority. Any lack of enthusiasm for this mission on my part could be grounds for . . . Well, that's not going to happen if I can help it. Take me back to Milan, the central train station.

God wants you to fight in a different way, and for a greater good, or he would not have put you where you are.

O kind missionary, O compassionate missionary, leave China! come home and convert these Christians!

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it.

Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals.

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?" "I know—it's a dream come true!

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission--the one only you can fulfill.