Quotes about Missions-Jesus_Christ

1

The thing that makes a missionary is the sight of what Jesus did on the cross and to have heard Him say, “Go.”

2

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

3

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

4

The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions, and the nearer we get to Him the more intensely missionary we must become.

5

It is profoundly loving for Jesus to exalt Himself. He cannot love the nations without putting Himself on display because it is He alone who truly satisfies the human soul. This makes God’s heart for God the deepest foundation from missions.

6

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.

7

Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, believed that if money could motivate the merchants of England to cross life-threatening oceans and enter the interior of China at great personal risk of loss of life, could not the love of Christ motivate missionaries to do the same for the sake of the gospel?

Recommended Books

Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story

Michael Goheen

Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy Of God In Missions

John Piper

A Vision for Missions

Tom Wells