A Little Something to Think About

The following quotes come from men who's hearts beat in tune with the heart of God for the nations of the world. Read these quotes, reflect upon them, and then plead with God that He would give us all a heart like His for the nations.

 

“The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.” Mike Strachura

“We talk of the Second Coming; half of the world has never heard of the first.” Oswald J. Smith

“World missions was on God’s mind from the beginning.” Dave Davidson

“Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell.” C.T. Studd

“May it become, once again, the ambition of the church to preach the Gospel where Christ is not known.” David Sitton

“I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.” John Falconer

“I’m exasperated that we continue to spend 97 percent of our resources in concentrating on our Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria rather than moving out to reach the ends of the earth.” Jerry Rankin

“The command has been to “go,” but we have stayed --- in body, gifts, prayer, and influence.” Robert Savage

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.” John Piper

“In the vast plain of the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has even been.” Robert Moffat

 “Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice before everyone has had a chance to hear it once?” Unknown 

“You can give without loving. You cannot love without giving.” Amy Carmichael

“Let my heart be broken with the things that break God’s heart.” Bob Pierce

“”My father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather and all of my ancestors before me – they lived and died – and they never heard the name of Jesus Christ. Why did it take you so long to come to us with the Gospel?” A cannibal war-chief turned Christian in the jungles of Papua New Guinea speaking to a missionary

“Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there.” J. Hudson Taylor

“ “Not called!” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say. 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. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face – whose mercy you have professed to obey – and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.” William Booth

“This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Jesus

“It has always been my ambition to preach the Gospel where Christ was not known” The Apostle Paul

“Here am I. Send me.” Isaiah