Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
John PiperThe root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.
John PiperOur lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
John Piper