Cases Quote by 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

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

— Alan Hirsch

The church was made for mission-God's mission

— Christopher J. H. Wright

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

— David Bosch

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

— John Piper

“Mission and missions must be the consuming passion of the whole church of God and not the exclusive domain of an elite missionary regiment.…

— John Mark Terry

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Reggie McNeal

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is…

— Alan Hirsch

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

— James Emery White

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

— Michael Frost

“So a working definition of missional church is a community of God's people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose…

— Alan Hirsch