Top 88 Christian Mission Quotes
#1. The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.
Michael Horton
#2. Christian mission is not simply about the multiplication of the church; it is about the discipling of the nations. It is about the penetration of cultures and ways of thought by the word about Christ.
Andrew F. Walls
#3. The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
Hu Shih
#4. The pursuit of holiness is thus no mere private hobby, nor merely a path for a select few, but a vital element in Christian mission strategy today. The world's greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.
J.I. Packer
#5. The Christian mission has only one focus: to change individual's lives so they can change the world.
Pope Francis
#6. Christian mission is not to preach Christ, but to be Christians in life. There
Alexander Schmemann
#7. Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
John R.W. Stott
#8. All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete.
Christian Lander
#9. Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
Deborah L. McCarragher
#10. This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.
Pope Francis
#11. Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission; not by our blood, but by His.
Mark Dever
#12. One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be inspired!
Mark P. Shea
#13. Don't despise your contributions to Humanity. Every little kind deed counts.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.
Alan Hirsch
#16. The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful may become missionaries in the places where they live and that vocations will come forth to proclaim the Gospel to men who do not yet know it.
Pope Benedict XVI
#21. I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.
Andy Stanley
#22. We are all called to fulfill God's five purposed for our lives: to worship, to fellowship, to grow like Christ, to serve, and to be on mission with God in the world.
Rick Warren
#24. Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.
David Novak
#27. It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church - dramatically and poignantly - the nature of its heart and mission.
Gary Smith
#33. I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission
Eric Wilson
#35. The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally.
David Jeremiah
#36. The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.
Don DeLillo
#37. I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
Luke Ford
#40. Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
Peter Kreeft
#41. Eyes glazed over as the great rice-wine parties in the highlands were recalled, parties that are no longer held since the arrival of the mission. Bario has become a good, clean, upstanding, sober, hard-working Christian community. What a loss for these fun-loving and generous people.
Eric Hansen
#50. Our sacred duty is to proclaim and preach the gospel of salvation to all people from every nation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#53. My passionate adventure is to fulfill my calling; revered, preacher woman.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. ...to become a Christian one did not have to become a European. [Jesuit mission philosophy]
John W. O'Malley
#56. The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.
Samuel Marinus Zwemer
#57. In 1945, the president of Dartmouth justified limits on Jewish enrollment by invoking the mission of the school: Dartmouth is a Christian College founded for the Christianization of its students.
Michael J. Sandel
#58. I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#61. We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn't everything.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#63. Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.
Pope Francis
#65. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#68. From: Christian Grey
Subject: My Life's Mission ...
Date: September 5, 2011 09:25
To: Anastasia Grey
Is to spoil you, Mrs. Grey.
And keep you safe because I love you.
Christian Grey
Smitten CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc.
E.L. James
#69. A missional theology ... appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
Alan Hirsch
#70. The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.
John Piper
#74. The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.
Peter Kreeft
#75. Lord, I am your chosen woman; use me to accomplish your work on earth in Jesus Name. Amen.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. The mission of Jesus was not to begin the Christian religion. His mandate was to reveal and redeem the image and likeness of God in human form. While
Francois Du Toit
#81. This lost world will never be reached and brought back to loyalty to God, until the children of God wake up to the fact that they have a mission in the world. If we are true Christians we should all be missionaries.
Dwight L. Moody
#83. Being "married for a mission" can revitalize a lot of marriages in which the partners think they suffer from a lack of compatibility; my suspicion is that many of these couples actually suffer from a lack of purpose.
Gary L. Thomas
#87. The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.
Thomas Merton
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