MISSIONS-NEGLECTED

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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.

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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.

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It is ironic when one stops to think about it. In an age when facilities for rapid communication of the gospel are available to the church as never before, there are actually more unevangelized people on the earth today than before the invention of the horseless carriage.

Robert E. Coleman

The Master Plan of Evangelism, Fleming H. Revell Company, p. 37-38.

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We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.

Oswald J. Smith

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The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating.

Author Unknown

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Believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

K.P. Yohannan

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