“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 preach the kingdom until they, too, died martyrs’ deaths. No missionary can have the authority of God resting on his ministry unless, as did Jesus, he totally sells out to God.”

~ K.P. Yohannan, Come, Let’s Reach the World