Tag Archives: Missions
Spirit-Empowered Missions
Would to God that there was as much desire on the part of God’s people to be empowered to witness in the Spirit as there is to have some ecstatic or emotional experience with the Holy Spirit.
Missions Monday
We have a base man-pleasing disposition, which will make us let men perish lest we lose their love, and let them go quietly to hell, lest we should make them angry with us for seeking their salvation: and we are ready to venture on the displeasure of God, and risk the everlasting misery of our people, rather than draw on ourselves their ill-will.
How Will You Know If You Love Missions?
Christ came to get glory for His Father among the nations. If you love what Jesus Christ came to accomplish, you love missions.
Missions Is the Product of Personal Holiness
The Original Missionary
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.
The Lamb and the Lion in Missions
In our churches, workplaces, gyms and neighborhoods, we must introduce people to the surpassing mercy of the Lamb so that they do not one day taste the judgment of the Lion.
Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeny, The Beauty of Christ, pp. 94-95
Missions and Global Worship of Jesus
Missions is about the worship of Jesus. The goal of missions is the global worship of Jesus by his redeemed people from every tribe, tongue, and nation. The outcome of missions is all peoples delighting to praise Jesus. And the motivation for missions is the enjoyment that his people have in him. Missions aims at, brings about, and is fueled by the worship of Jesus.
The Goal of Missions
The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
What Is the Harvest Worth?
The harvest is worth whatever it costs us to say yes to Him.
K. Neill Foster and Douglas B. Wicks, eds., Voices on the Cross, pp. 16-17