All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

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

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

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.