“A Missionary was never designed…”
“A Missionary was never designed by Jesus Christ to gather a congregation of a hundred or two natives and sit down at his ease, as contented as if every sinner was converted, while thousands around him are eating each other’s flesh and drinking each other’s blood, living and dying without the gospel. For my own part, I cannot content myself within the narrow limits of a single reef.”
- John Williams missionary to the South Sea Islands
“Get first of all into harmony with Him”
“Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.”
- J. Hudson Taylor
12.29.09“The use of means”
12.15.09“The use of means ought not to lessen our faith in GOD; and our faith in GOD ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes.” – J. Hudson Taylor
“What has happened to the salt and light?”
12.10.09We should not ask, “What is wrong with the world?” for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather, we should ask, “What has happened to the salt and light?” – John R. W. Stott
“Puttering Around in the Homeland”
11.13.09“The command has been to ‘go,’ but we have stayed — in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth … but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.” – Robert Savage
“A Special Call to Stay at Home”
11.11.09“It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, you need rather to as certain whether you have a special call to stay at home.”
-James Hudson Taylor (Missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission, now called Overseas Missionary Fellowship– OMF)
“Well, she’s willing.”
11.10.09“I wasn’t God’s first choice for what I’ve done for China…I don’t know who it was…It must have been a man…a well-educated man. I don’t know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn’t willing…and God looked down…and saw Gladys Aylward…And God said, ‘Well, she’s willing.’” – Gladys Aylward (Missionary to China)
“He has called us!”
11.5.09“We did not come to China because missionary work here was either safe or easy, but because He has called us. We did not enter upon our present positions under a guarantee of human protection, but relying on the promise of His presence. The accidents of ease or difficulty, of apparent safety or danger, of man’s approval or disapproval, in no wise affect our duty. Should circumstances arise involving us in what may seem special danger, we shall have grace, I trust, to manifest the depth and reality of our confidence in Him, and by faithfulness to our charge to prove that we are followers of the Good Shepherd who did not flee from death itself…”
James Hudson Taylor (Missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission, now called Overseas Missionary Fellowship– OMF)
“I expect that God will”
11.3.09“The man…looking at him with a smile that only half concealed his contempt, inquired, ‘Now Mr. Morrison do you really expect that you will make an impression on the idolatry of the Chinese Empire?’ ‘No sir,’said Morrison, ‘but I expect that God will.’” - Robert Morrison (Missionary, Linguist, and Bible Translator to China)
“Wanted: A Man”
I read this on Tony Howeth’s Blog, Deputation Tips, and thought is good. We need men to step up and do something with their lives for the cause of world evangelism!
Wanted, a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living. Wanted, a man who sees self-development, education and culture, discipline and drill, character and manhood, in his occupation. A thousand pulpits vacant in a single religious denomination, a thousand preachers standing idle in the market place, while a thousand church committees scour the land for men to fill those same vacant pulpits, and scour in vain, is a sufficient indication, in one direction at least, of the largeness of the opportunities of the age, and also of the crying need of good men.
The whole world is looking for such a man. Although there are millions out of employment, yet it is almost impossible to find just the right man in almost any department of life, and yet everywhere we see the advertisement: “Wanted: A Man.”
This is from “Pushing to the Front” by Orison Swett Marden
