The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.
Roland AllenChrist had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
Roland AllenMissionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
Roland AllenThe spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.
Roland Allen