Church Missions Quotes

#1. The church doesn't have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.

James Emery White

#2. We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.

Reggie McNeal

#3. The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

Timothy Keller

#4. Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

Charles Colson

#5. It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - God's mission.

Christopher J.H. Wright

#6. If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

C.S. Lewis

#7. A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

Carl Braaten

#8. God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission ... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

Leonard Sweet

#9. Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

Travis Tritt

#10. For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power
worship.

Robert E. Webber

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Elizabeth Berg

#12. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality ... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

Paul Arden

#13. I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

Marc Jacobs

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Rachel Van Dyken

#15. The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

George Verwer

#16. The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

Charles Spurgeon

#17. I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

George H. Miley

#18. I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

Kylie Minogue

#19. The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

Eddie Gibbs

#20. There is nothing in the world or the Church - except the church's disobedience - to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

Robert Speer

#21. The mission of the church is missions.

Oswald J. Smith

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Nnedi Okorafor

#23. If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.

Charles Spurgeon

#24. Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

Randy Alcorn

#25. Mission and missions must be the consuming passion of the whole church of God and not the exclusive domain of an elite missionary regiment. Only then will the church be like a city set on a hill which cannot be hidden. Only then will the fullest meaning of mission as the light of God be realized.

John Mark Terry

#26. The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

C.S. Lewis

#27. There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person's mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

John Piper

#29. It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

Alan Hirsch

#30. The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

Henry Martyn

#31. We often agree with the devil's lies and support his opinion about us by our actions

Sunday Adelaja

#32. Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

David Bosch