Church Quote by Carl Braaten

The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.

— James Emery White

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

— Timothy Keller

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there…

— Emil Brunner

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

— David Bosch

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

— Alan Hirsch

We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.

— Reggie McNeal

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

— John Piper

It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

“Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

“a missional church is simply any church that organizes itself around the mission of God in this world.”

— Michael Frost

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

— Alan Hirsch

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is…

— George Verwer