Missionary Quotes - Page 29

• Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.

  Ed Stetzer

  Mean, Sound, Culture

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• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary Zeal, Waiting, Intellectual

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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• Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Might, Bills

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.221, 谷月社

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• Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Independent, May, Calumny

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• God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Training, Saint, Weapons

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

  Fredrik Franson

  Prayer, People, Sick

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• Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Love Is, Bears

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• 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.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Fall, Flames, Groups

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• Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

  Richard Halverson

  People, News, Messages

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• Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Heart, Luxury

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• The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.

  James Stuart Stewart

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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• If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Promise, Debt

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• The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

  Oswald J. Smith

  Beautiful, Christian, Church

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• Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Confused, Action, Should

  "Return to Kurdistan" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2002.

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• Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!

  Pope Francis

  Commitment, Joy, Challenges

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.34, BookBaby

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• As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance. May we be moved with compassion as our Lord was. May we shed tears of repentance for these we have failed to bring out of darkness. Beyond the smiling scenes of Bethlehem may we see the crushing agony of Golgotha

  Nate Saint

  Crush, Christian, Night

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• Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.

  William Booth

  Christian, College, Years

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• 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.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Country, Passion, Home

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• I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

  David Livingstone

  May, Kingdoms, Christ

  David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”

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• If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

  Martin Luther

  People, Risk, Break Out

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.18, Anchor

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• A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

  William Joseph Burns

  Heart, Mean, Christian Inspirational

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• Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Lord, Missions

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• Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Earth, Kingdoms

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• I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Men, Christianity, Missions

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