"Our mission is to love others without stopping to ask whether they are worthy; this love itself makes both us and our neighbors worthy. Because love is our true destiny, we cannot find the meaning of life alone, but only in fellowship with others."
— Thomas Morton
Source: Love and Life
Mission, Love, Meaning, Others
Views: 192
"The church does not possess a missionary mission; rather, God's mission possesses the church."
— Lesslie Newbigin
Source: Open secret
Mission
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"The driving force behind missionary work is not love for people, but love for Jesus Christ. Love for people will eventually dry up, but love for Christ will never fail."
— Chambers
Source: Devotion to the Lord
Mission, love, failure
Views: 150
"The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of mission. The closer we draw to Him, the more urgent our desire for missionary work becomes."
— Henry Martin
Source: Henry Martin's Diaries and Letters
Mission
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"We should make this clear to believers from the very beginning of our missionary work: every believer is a messenger of God's Kingdom. The goal of missionaries should not be to build a "greenhouse plant" that is forever dependent on the mother church, but to cultivate a towering tree that can take root in the local soil and stand alone in the local climate."