Quotes About Mission

The mission of the church must therefore include, at a structural level, the recognition that our present space, time, and matter are all subject not to rejection but to redemption.

we should never forget that when Jesus rose from the dead, as the paradigm, first example, and generating power of the whole new creation, the marks of the nails were not just visible on his hands and his feet. They were the way he was to be identified. When art comes to terms with both the wounds of the world and the promise of resurrection and learns how to express and respond to both at once, we will be on the way to a fresh vision, a fresh mission. A

God's kingdom had already been launched through the events of Jesus's life. Unless we get this firmly in our heads, we will never understand the inner dynamic of Paul's mission.

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

Theology, after all, was made for the sake of the church, not the church for theology.

But in scripture itself God's purpose is not just to save human beings, but to renew the whole world. This is the unfinished story in which readers of scripture are invited to become actors in their own right. "The authority of scripture" is thus a sub-branch of several other theological topics: the mission of the church, the work of the Spirit

left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

By telling Christians they are citizens of heaven, then, Paul was telling them to permeate the world with a heavenly culture.

Our missiology has always been clearly defined for us and our ecclesiology has been inherited, healthy or not.

From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long. They might get inside the plant and complete their mission, but getting out and away would be another

Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Houston, uh, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Liftoff! We have a liftoff...

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Houston, the Eagle has landed.

I have come to understand church as this: the presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.

Instead of bringing people to church so that we can then bring them to Christ, let's bring Christ to people where they live.

Let us all remember that it is not our own reputations that are at stake in the missions to which we are called. It is His. The successes and the setbacks are His. It is His rejection, His reception—not ours. These

Every church throughout history whose members were willing to surrender their lives for the sake of Christ witnessed dramatic and spontaneous growth.

Church begins with Jesus: who He is and what He has done. It is all about Jesus, and if it begins to be about something else, then it stops being the church as Jesus meant it to be.

church has become a religious event that takes place once a week, rather than a spiritual family on a mission together.

One of our church networks has as its purpose statement "To have a church within walking distance of every person living in Las Vegas.

Another claims, "Every Christian is a church planter, every home is a church, and every church building is a training center.