MISSIONS-CHURCH

There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.

Andrew Murray

No man is truly awake today who has not developed a supra-national horizon to his thinking. No church is anything more than a pathetic pietistic backwater unless it is first and fundamentally and all the time a world missionary church.

James S. Stewart

Quoted by Curtis C. Thomas, Practical Wisdom for Pastors, Crossway Books, 2001, p. 182.

A church that says no to missions is not just saying no to men. It is not just a matter of leaving men in their sins. It is saying no to God's greatest concern: the spreading of His glorious name among the peoples of the world. This is His passionate concern; it must be ours.

Steve Fernandez

Missions and the Glory of God's Name.

The best remedy for a sick Church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Author Unknown

Missions is not the “ministry of choice” for a few hyperactive Christians in the church. Missions is the purpose of the church.

Author Unknown

The true greatness of any church in not how many it seats but how many it sends!

Author Unknown

“I am going down into the pit; you hold the ropes,” said Carey the pioneer missionary. They that hold the ropes, and the daring miner that swings away down in the darkness, are one in work, may be one in the motive, and, if they are, shall be one in the reward.

Alexander MacLaren

Factors taken into consideration [when evaluating the potential for missionary support]:

1. The strategic nature of the work.

2. Relationship to “our” church.

3. Amount of money already in hand.

4. Competency.

Mark Dever and Paul Alexander

The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.

F.B. Meyer