A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.