A couple of years ago Marv Newell published Expect Great Things: Mission Quotes that Inform and Inspire (William Carey). I was very excited when this book was released. It is now one of the coolest books in my library. This work is filled with quotes from 2000 years of Church history. If you do not have a copy, then what are you waiting for?
I want to share a few quotes with you from the section “Bible and Missions.”
“If you take missions out of the Bible, you won’t have anything left but the covers.” — Nina Gunter
“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It never needs a furlough, is never considered a foreigner.” — William Cameron Townsend
“The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible.” — Ralph Winter
“The Bible itself is missionary literature from beginning to end. . . . Since the Bible is itself a missionary textbook, we should not expect to find either the basis or the motivation for missions in a single verse of scripture, but, rather, in the tenor and teaching of the Bible as a whole.” — Warren Webster
“What we may conclude from the wording of Genesis 12:3 and its use in the New Testament is that God’s purpose for the world is that the blessing of Abraham, namely, the salvation achieved through Jesus Christ, the seed of Abraham, would reach to all the ethnic people groups of the world. This would happen as people in each group put their faith in Christ and thus become ‘sons of Abraham’ (Gal 3:7) and heirs of the promise (Gal 3:29).” — John Piper
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