Quotes About Mission

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

For we are Godís fellow workers; you are Godís field, Godís building.

Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.

What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

Then, on my arrival, I will send letters with those you recommend to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

And if it is advisable for me to go also, they can travel with me.

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.

Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was not at all inclined to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity.

I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.

Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and a door stood open for me in the Lord,

Along with Titus we are sending the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in the gospel.

We are not overstepping our bounds, as if we had not come to you. Indeed, we were the first to reach you with the gospel of Christ.

so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. Then we will not be boasting in the work already done in another manís territory.

I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.

Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead—

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before me, but I went into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.

Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

Later I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.