Quotes About Mission

The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem.

As we make disciples and mobilize God's people for mission, the methodology we use must be congruent with the way of Jesus. We need to learn how to do family on mission.

Christianity is concerned with the unfolding of the Kingdom of God in the world, not the longevity of organizations.

From our experience, if you want to make disciples, if you want to build a discipling culture in your community, you are going to need three things: 1. A discipleship vehicle (I call it a Huddle) 2. People need access to your life (the texture of Family on Mission) 3. A discipling language (the discipling language I use is called LifeShapes)

If we're going to make disciples and move out in mission, we need to go from managing boundaries to integrating family and mission into one life, a cohesive framework and fabric that empowers a culture of discipleship and mission, not just occasional events and periodic programs.

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.

the purpose of a family on mission is to multiply the life of Jesus by reproducing ourselves into the lives of others, so they become disciples of Jesus who can then reproduce themselves into the lives of others.

The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission.

What we see from Jesus is that success isn't thousands of people and an ever-expanding church. Success is obedience to what the Father asks.

if people left our services saying, "What an awesome choir" or "That's a great church," then we have failed in our mission. No, the only thing I want said is, "What an awesome God!" I

Jonah 3:1: "The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time

As Jesus's disciples we are to follow him—doing the things he did.

We had been ordered to the Gulf of Guinea to watch the mouth of the great Niger River. Our

I remember the thrill that was mine when, in one of my first meetings, I led my first soul to Christ in America. And he was one of my own countrymen.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

The credit must be given to Luke for spreading Christianity to other races.

Your purpose can be fulfilled only during the time you are given on earth to accomplish it.

The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God up to?

Jesus died for our sins not so that we could sort out abstract ideas, but so that we, having been put right, could become part of God's plan to put his whole world right. That is how the revolution works.

resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.