Quotes About The Great Commission

#1. May God give us much more grace eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about

Rick Warren

#3. The Holy Spirit gives power for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. We have not been promised rescue from this world; we have been commanded to go and take back this world. The Great Commission is Jesus' call to storm the gates of hell and to liberate his children, establishing his kingdom.

Richard Stearns

#5. The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.

John Hagee

#6. Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have created a biblically sound course that will not only motivate Christians; it will equip them to fulfill the Great Commission.

Josh McDowell

#7. The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.

Vance Havner

#8. Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.

Brother Andrew

#9. When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.

Wes Moore

#10. The issue is not about having a small church or a big one. It is about how to keep the great commission at the forefront of every believer's mind. It is about helping the church go beyond "come and listen" to "go and tell.

David Platt

#11. It is only a matter of time till the reality of the rest of the world comes home. And all the while we are called by Christ to go to them, love them, sacrifice for them, bring the gospel to them. The Great Commission is not child's play. It is costly. Very costly.

John Piper

#12. Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

Ray Comfort

#13. One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical church.

John Willis Zumwalt

#14. I believe that we are the generation that will rise and fulfill the Great Commission. But if we don't; some generation will. God has decreed it!

David Shibley

#15. The Great Commission will not get done if we're not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

John Piper

#16. A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

Rick Warren

#17. The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

David Kim

#18. The second theological perspective that influenced many of the Reformers was the belief that the Great Commission passages already had been fulfilled during the lifetime of the apostles.

Timothy Tennent

#19. Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

Loren Cunningham

#20. The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

James Hudson Taylor

#21. The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

Ron Luce

#22. The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

Rick Joyner

#23. God uses one whom others would have passed over without a second glance. The history of obedience to the Great Commission is full of such examples. Behind this reality is a truth that God will use any who will submit to and obey His purpose for mission in their generation.

Ross Paterson

#24. If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.

Pat Morley

#25. Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Ed Stetzer

#26. Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.

Charles R. Swindoll

#27. Instructing people to obey Christ's commands is part of the Great Commission. It's not enough to teach the facts about Christ, we are to teach, exhort, and train disciples to obey and live according to the commands of Christ.

Alexander Strauch

#28. There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

Bill Bright

#29. Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

Oswald J. Smith

#30. Nobody telling everybody about somebody." This sums up the Great Commission quite succinctly.

Matthew Everhard

#31. Jesus said, "Teach all nations." He never said that we need governmental permission to evangelize. Faithfulness to God and the Great Commission compels us to reach beyond borders to people in restricted nations.

Richard Wurmbrand

#32. Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.

Andy Stanley

#33. The Great Commission is the primary task the Lord left his church. The church must always be a missionary church; the Christian must always be a world Christian.

William J. Larkin Jr.

#34. It's a shame that so many churches are married to a designed-by-Christians-for-Christians-only culture. A culture in which they talk about the Great Commission, sing about the Great Commission, but refuse to reorganize their churches around the Great Commission.

Andy Stanley

#35. The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.

Brother Andrew

#36. The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Intercession remains the unrivaled master in fulfilling the Great Commission.

David Shibley

#38. God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.

Criss Jami

#39. God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

Elisabeth Elliot

#40. He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said to be in his way, for he went in at one door and came out at the other[.]

Charles Dickens

#41. For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

Albert Speer

#42. A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.

Alexander Agassiz

#43. To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

Criss Jami