Quotes About Missions John Piper

#1. So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.

John Piper

#2. There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

John Piper

#3. To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

Scot McKnight

#4. If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.

John Piper

#5. Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

John Piper

#6. In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#7. The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

John Piper

#8. All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.

John Piper

#9. My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.

Ryan Reynolds

#10. I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Kim Cattrall

#11. The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.

John Piper

#12. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore, is the fuel and the goal of missions.8

John Piper

#13. The word"boundaries" often relates directly to the word fear. In other words, we often limit ourselves from going beyond the"norm" because we think of it as being"risky" or because we're afraid of failure. It's easy to settle for average or normal. That's why the majority of us do!

Michael Harris

#14. Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

John Piper

#15. Jesus' primary concern - the very first petition of the prayer he teaches - is that more and more people, and more and more peoples, come to hallow God's name. This is the reason the universe exists. Missions exists because this hallowing does not.

John Piper

#16. If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

John Piper

#17. If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

Nicola Griffith

#18. The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

John Piper

#19. Mission exists because worship doesn't.

John Piper

#20. You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.

Gabriel Campisi

#21. What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Julian Barnes

#22. A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.

Charles B. Rangel

#23. You have to trust someone sometime." "If your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything. And even then.

Anthony Doerr

#24. His story is simple, because simple is always best.

Stephen King

#25. You're not all that God has called you to be, as a follower of Jesus, if you're missions-minded but not engaged in God's mission here and now.

John Piper

#26. I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

Brian McKnight

#27. Go, send, or disobey.

John Piper

#28. Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

Daniel Quinn

#29. Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

John Piper

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

John Piper

#31. Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

John Piper