Mission Trip Quotes

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

Live your life as a missions trip.

'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.'

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

The Church must send or the church will end.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

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

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.

The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations