Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.
Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.
The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.
A tiny group of 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.
God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
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