Missions

May My Time Be Used to the Advantage of Christ – Thomas Chalmers

Pray that the brief remaining time I have in this world may be employed to the best advantage, both for the profit of my own soul and for that of others. More especially may the time spent in company be laid out for Christ, and not lost in the common-places and frivolities of ordinary conversation. May my speech be leavened with religion and yet be adapted to the peculiarities and the needs of every man, so that all offence may, when possible, be shunned, yet many be won to the faith and the following of Jesus.

– Thomas Chalmers –
from Sabbath Scripture Readings

No Hunger for God – Florence Allshorn

We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they can say we have helped, write us grateful letters, even stand steady for a time till the juice we have put into them runs out; but, we may have brought them no hunger for God—because that hunger is no ache in our own heart—nor brought them anywhere near to the end of self.

– Florence Allshorn –

Behold How He Loves Us – George Whitefield

Press them to believe on Him immediately, intersperse prayers with your exhortations preacher and thereby call down fire from heaven even the fire of the Holy Ghost, speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last, weep out if possible every argument and as it were compel them to cry “behold how he loveth us”!

– George Whitefield –

The Invasion of the World Into the Church – John R. Mott

The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ’s Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.

– John R. Mott –

Confronting Somebody About Sin – Crawford Loritts

Whenever we have to confront somebody about sin, there ought to be a little bit of a tear in our heart, if not in our eyes. We need to be reminded that but for the grace of God, the capacity for sin in us could break out.

– Crawford Loritts –

The Underground Christian – Richard Wurmbrand

Christianity has become dramatic with us. When Chris­tians in free countries win a soul for Christ, the new believer may become a member of a quietly living church. But when those in captive nations win someone, we know that he may have to go to prison and that his children may become or­phans. The joy of having brought someone to Christ is always mixed with this feeling that there is a price that must be paid. We had met an entirely new type of Christian——the Christian of the Under­ground Church.

– Richard Wurmbrand – 
from Tortured for Christ

What Are We Winning People To? – AW Tozer

Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, “But we are winning them!” And winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To nobility of character? To a despising of the world’s treasures? To hard self-discipline? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is no.

– AW Tozer –

Be All There – Jim Elliot

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt [in] every situation you believe to be the will of God.

– Jim Elliot –
from his journals