Church Quote by Christopher J. H. Wright Download Open image “The church was made for mission-God's mission” — Christopher J. H. Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Goals Inspirational Made Missions
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. — David Bosch Copy Share Image
“God’s church is a missional church, a community that is sent and given away for God’s purposes.” — Hugh Halter Copy Share Image
“a missional church is simply any church that organizes itself around the mission of God in this world.” — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The mission of God is the origin of every expression of ecclesiology, every understanding of how the church is structured and why it exists.… — Rob Wegner Copy Share Image
Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today. — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“Evil and sin weave their way into every aspect of God’s creation and every dimension of human personhood and life on earth.” — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
It's important, though, that there are not "four gospels." There is only one gospel: the good news of what God has done through Christ… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Old Testament Israel had some foundational pillars of faith. They were true and robust and God given. The trouble was that people had come… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the homeless and… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
What is so striking in the book of Jeremiah is how many times it is impossible to distinguish between the words of Jeremiah and… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect being, suffering… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The Jews believed they were the nation God had chosen among all the nations. And they were. But that did not give them immunity… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“The reality is, of course, as soon as you think seriously about it, that the mission field is everywhere, including your own street –… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
If "gospel" means good news, then Jeremiah had some for sure. He saw the judgment coming, in horrifying technicolour. But he saw beyond it… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The trouble today is that many Christians live in a kind of bubble of assumptions about what their Christianity means, especially if it places… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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