“If Western Christian leaders will return to New Testament principles for assisting indigenous missionary movements overseas, it is likely we could see world evangelization completed in our generation.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions ~
“The worldwide proclamation of the Gospel awaits accomplishment by a generation which shall have the obedience, courage, and determination to attempt the task.” ~ John R. Mott ~ john mott was a leader of the ymca.
“God has huge plans for the world today! He is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost ends of the earth.” ~ David Smithers ~
“God is reaching the lost not through programs but through individuals whose lives are so committed to Him that He uses them as vessels to anoint a lost world.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions ~
“All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth.” ~ John Piper ~
“Nothing pleases Christ more than for us to share with Him His burden for the world and its people. Nothing so weds us to the heart of Christ as our tears shed as we intercede for lost ones with Him. Then truly we become people after God’s own heart. Then we begin to know what…
“Is it possible to get close to the Master’s heart without getting close to the Master’s mission?” ~ Larry Moyer ~
“Most of all, Jesus showed them that they needed to abide in Him, in the same way that He dwelt in God the Father (see John 14:10-12; 15: 1, 9-10). Missionary service is based on intimate resting in God. Only as we rely on God to do the work is the task accomplished – for…
“Look at the nations and be amazed! Watch and be astounded at what I will do! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you about it.” ~ Habakkuk 1:5 ~
“We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.” ~ Wesley Deuwel ~ wesley deuwel is the former president of oms international.
“I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give. I do not suppose there is one that I have not experienced, but I can tell you that those pleasures were as nothing compared…
“96% of Christian broadcasting (radio/TV) benefits Christian nations (World C), while 0.1% benefits unevangelized nations (World A).” ~ Barrett and Johnson, World Christian Trends ~
“A declining interest in missions is the sure sign that a church and people have left their first love.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions ~
“The bedrock of missions is not the value of man, it is the spread of God’s glory. the biblical commitment to evangelism and missions is rooted in God’s passionate concern to make His name known.” ~ Steve Fernandez ~
“Of the more than 135,000 North American missionaries now actively commissioned, fewer than 10,000 are working among totally unreached peoples.” ~ Barrett and Johnson, World Christian Trends ~
“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 ~
“We are never closer to God than when we share His heart for the unevangelized.” ~ Patrick Johnstone ~ patrick johnstone was a missionary in africa, asia and the pacifics.
“Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls.” ~ Lottie Moon ~ lottie moon was a baptist missionary to china.
“The average North American Christian gives only 50 cents a week to global missions.” ~ Barrett and Johnson, World Christian Trends ~
“Few of the unreached people groups in our modern world are reachable by cross-cultural missionaries from the West. Even though reaching them requires some cross-cultural work, this is best done by those from nearby cultures.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Come, Let’s Reach the World”
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth.” ~ John Wesley ~ John Wesley was the founder of the…
“818 unevangelized ethnolinguistic peoples have never been targeted by by any Christian agencies ever.” ~ Barrett and Johnson, World Christian Trends ~
“A missionary working on the borders of Tibet wrote these impressive words: ‘The eyes of Christians should turn as instinctively toward the lands closed to the Gospel in this missionary age as do the eyes of a conquering army toward the few remaining outposts of the enemy which withstand the victors and hinder complete victory,…
“When we allow a mission activity to focus only on the physical needs of man without the correct spiritual balance, we are participating in a program that ultimately will fail.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions
“Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.” ~ John Piper ~
“Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice before everyone has heard it once?” ~ Oswald Smith ~
“Of the 55 least evangelized countries, 97% of their population lives in the 10/40 Window.” ~ AD 2000 and Beyond
“Jesus loved God more than His own life, and He was willing to die in order to save lost humanity. ‘God so loved … that he gave his only begotten Son’ (John 3:16). The disciples caught this same sacrificial zeal. They had been with Jesus. They absorbed His passion for souls and went out to…
“What God will do is always more than what He has given us to do. He has given us a clear and simple thing to finish: to see that Christ is worshipped and followed in every people. This is the essential missionary task. This task we must do with utmost focus and passion until it…
“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 indefeasibly 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…
Missions is more than a matter of obeying a command, it is the result of an encounter with Christ. To meet Christ, means to become caught up in a mission to the world. ~ David Bosh ~ David bosh was a missiologist and theologian.
“The purpose of your life as a believer must be to obey Jesus when He said, ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel.’” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions ~
“Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.” ~ C.T. Studd ~ C.t studd was an english cricket player and a missionary to china, india and africa.
“Missions is not a recruitment project for God’s labor force. It is a liberation project from the heavy burdens and hard yokes of other gods.” ~ John Piper ~
“I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God’s global mission. Now I have another idea. Let’s take God’s global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!” ~ George Miley ~
“Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’” ~ 1 Corinthians 16:31 ~
“We must understand that when it comes to nations in which Western missionaries are no longer able to do church planting as past eras allowed, the priority must then be to support efforts of indigenous mission works through financial aid and intercessory prayer.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution In World Missions ~
“The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.” ~ Anonymous ~
“Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn’t.” ~ George Otis ~
“Missions is not the ‘ministry of choice’ for a few hyperactive Christians in the church. Missions is the purpose of the church.” ~ Anonymous ~
“Nothing is more indicative of the moral decline of the West than Christians who have lost the passion of Christ for a lost and dying world.” ~ K.P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions ~
“Oh, that I might be a flaming fire in the service of the Lord. Here I am, Lord, send me; send me to the ends of the earth… send me from all that is called earthly comfort; send me even to death itself if it be but in Thy service and to promote Thy Kingdom.”…
“God’s part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.” ~ Andrew Bonar ~
“Given the reality of the mission field today, it would be foolish for us to require all missionaries to leave their home cultures. The best current examples are in China, India and the former Soviet Union. There, millions still have not received the Gospel in villages that are within the cultural reach of existing congregations….
A “stove pipe” pipe tornado ripped through Dolores, a city of 20,000, in southwest Uruguay on April 15, leaving four people dead and hundreds injured. Flying cars struck two of the deceased victims. Witnesses report more than 400 buildings were destroyed amid the disruption of normal services, contributing to the state of chaos. “There are…
“As our blessed Lord has required us to pray that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven, it becomes us not only to express our desires of that event by words, but to use every lawful method to spread the knowledge of His name. In order to do this, it is…
What started in Brazil and quickly spread to most of the Americas has now appeared in Vietnam where two women have reportedly been infected with the Zika virus. One is a 64-year-old woman and the second is 33 years old and eight weeks pregnant. Government health officials have quarantined the families of each. Zika is…
“In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every day, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity.” ~ Sheikh Ahmad al Qataani, a leading Saudi cleric, on a television interview (Dec 2001) ~
“Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do – the evangelization of all the unevangelized.” ~ C.T. Studd ~ C.T. Studd was a missionary in…
“You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most. It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save…
