23 January 2011
Faith Promises
01/29/11 09:15 AM Filed in: From the Pastor
This Sunday morning you have a missions faith promise card in your bulletin. This is one tangible way that each believer and family at Christ’s Chapel can do his or her part in fulfilling the Great Commission. Please take the time this morning to fill out the faith promise card and place it in the offering as it is passed before you. As you consider what you may be willing to do in 2011, consider the following quotes from some of the great missionaries and pastors throughout history. Thank you!
"I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light" – John Keith Falconer
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed." -- Hudson Taylor
"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God." -- William Carey
"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." --Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot
"In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been." – Robert Moffat
"If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" -- David Livingstone
"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." – C.T. Studd
"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith
"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." -- Oswald J. Smith
"Someone asked, Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we -- who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not -- can be saved." -- Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry
"I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light" – John Keith Falconer
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed." -- Hudson Taylor
"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God." -- William Carey
"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." --Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot
"In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been." – Robert Moffat
"If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" -- David Livingstone
"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." – C.T. Studd
"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith
"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." -- Oswald J. Smith
"Someone asked, Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we -- who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not -- can be saved." -- Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry