“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who will argue with you.” - John Wooden (quote found in March 19, 2007 Sports Illustrated)
“Countless people have seen the Cross, but few carry it.” - Calvin Miller, Once Upon a Tree (Howard, 2002)
Of the 160 million unchurched Americans, about 60 million (almost four in 10) are eager for a Christian to share the Gospel with them, according to research by Thom and Sam Rainer III. - Source: Outreach magazine (March/April 2007)
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” - Elie Wiesel
If there ever was an hour in which the church needed courageous men of prophetic vision, it is now. Preachers and pastors? They can be turned out in our schools like automobiles off the assembly line. But prophets? Where are they?
A.W. Tozer
C.S. Lewis said: “If our giving does not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say it is too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.”
We ought to regard the Christian Church, not as a luxurious hostelry where Christian gentlemen may each dwell at his ease in his own inn but as a barracks in which soldiers are gathered together to be drilled and trained for war. We should regard the Christian Church, not as an association of for mutual admiration and comfort, but as an army with banners, marching to the fray to achieve victories for Christ, to storm the strongholds of the foe, and to add province after province to the Redeemer’s Kingdom.
“I know when apostolic passion has died in my heart. It happens when I don’t spend my quiet time dreaming of the time when Jesus will be worshiped in languages that aren’t yet heard in heaven. I know it’s missing from my life when I sing about heaven, but live as if earth is my home. Apostolic passion is dead in my heart when I dream more about sports, toys, places to go and people to see, than I do about the nations worshiping Jesus.” Floyd Mclung, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement (William Carey Library, 1999)
