So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.