If we never do any work for Christ except when we feel up to the mark, we shall not do much. If we feel that we will not pray because we cannot pray, we shall never pray.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from The Soul Winner
Missions
When you’re on fire, everyone knows it – Leonard Ravenhill
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there’s a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Lifeboat or a Cruise Ship? – Leonard Ravenhill
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Release your grasp on the temporal – Jim Elliot
Father, let me loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
– Jim Elliot –
The Church needs to move the world – GK Chesterton
We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
– GK Chesterton –
Living not for self – William Temple
The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.
– William Temple –
Called to Missions or to Stay at Home? – Hudson Taylor
It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to the mission field. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.
– Hudson Taylor –
How do you do the Lord’s work? – Corrie Ten Boom
Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
– Corrie Ten Boom –
Everyone is a missionary (for good or for evil) – Thomas Chalmers
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
– Thomas Chalmers –