Quotes About Mission

Despair made you helpless. Despair got in the way of the mission. And it never helped. It was the sin that was not so much unforgivable as totally pointless.

This is the mission of God: to restore the creation and the life of humanity from the ravages of sin.[45] The church's function in this story is to participate in God's mission; we are to be caught up in God's own work of restoration and healing. This defines the identity and role of the church.

mission is not primarily about going. Nor is mission primarily about doing anything. Mission is about being.

Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?

After the bill had been pulled that Friday, Katie Walsh, feeling both angry and disgusted, told Kushner she wanted out. Outlining what she saw as the grim debacle of the Trump White House, she spoke with harsh candor about bitter rivalries joined to vast incompetence and an uncertain mission.

On March 27, the Office of American Innovation was created and Kushner was put in charge. Its stated mission was to reduce federal bureaucracy—that is, to reduce it by creating more of it, a committee to end committees.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

El hombre nunca ha podido amar, más que en la inmortalidad; seguramente por eso las mujeres estaban más cerca del amor cuando tenían la misión de dar la vida. Hemos

He told the Washington Post that "We've reduced our exposure and we've significantly reduced our casualties," he said. "I just don't think the investment of 3,000 troops is too much to keep what we've gained in 20 years."

The Lord wants much more from His people than for them to be His workforce. He longs to have relationship with those who love Him and to partner with them in accomplishing His purposes.

We don't want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture.

Here's the thing that can be difficult to wrap our minds around: If you make disciples, you always get the church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples.

Many Christian leaders spend their entire lives within the confines of the church campus and wonder why they see little breakthrough in the area of evangelism.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church.

Most of us have become quite good at the church thing. And yet, disciples are the only thing that Jesus cares about, and it's the only number that Jesus is counting.

If we can't live the sacred journey with Christ daily and are not actively drawing others into that journey—way outside the worship center or sanctuary and outside our stained-glass or silk-plant ghettos—we can't expect to do it in an hour on Sunday morning or Wednesday night.

Family on mission is how we stop thinking of discipleship as a task that we do and start living out discipleship as a way that we are.

The destiny of the Church is directly tied to how passionate she remains to her mission.

While the Bible clearly defines roles within the Church, the mission of the Church was intended to be shared by the whole body.

we should focus on people who don't know Jesus yet, but Jesus himself gave us the model for doing that: Disciple people.

Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause. If

The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem. If you know how to disciple people well, you will always get mission. Always.

From the Greek apostolos meaning "one who is sent out." Apostles are visionary and pioneering, always pushing into new territory. They like to establish new churches, ministries, non-profits, Kingdom-minded businesses or initiatives.

The message was clear: to be a disciple meant that you learn how to make disciples — an ever-multiplying movement meant to bless the whole world.