Optimism

"We ought to be the most optimistic people on the face of the earth." ~ Jesse C. Middendorf

He Wants to Make You...

"What God wants to make of us is more important than what we can make of ourselves." ~ B. Brown

Beggars

"We are all beggars. We are all members of a species that is not sufficient unto itself. We are all creatures plagued by unending doubts and restless, unsatisfied hearts. Of all creatures, we are the poorest and the most incomplete. Our needs are always beyond our capacities, and we only find ourselves when we lose ourselves…. The unending nature of our poverty as human beings is our only innate treasure." ~ Johannes Metz

Would You Throw It Away?

"He, who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice." ~ Jeremy Taylor

The Call...

"The work which God has called us to do, must be done. Not something else, not something similar..."~ Phineas F. Bresee

Learning to Love

"Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature." ~ Rick Warren

Ultimate Goal of Church...

"Missions is not the ultimate goal of church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't." ~ John Piper

Bear the Load

"We are pilgrims on a journey, We are travelers on the road; we are here to help each other. Walk the mile and bear the load." ~ Gillard

Reach Out

"Selfless acts of reaching out to those in need in tangible ways are hugely impactful." ~ David A. Busic

Hard & Holy Conversations

"The ability to have hard and holy conversations begins with a skill that seems to be lacking in our cultural discourse—the ability to listen." ~ M. Schutz

Communion

“Some people say their prayers and go to communion, but because their hearts are full of earth they derive little profit from it.” ~ Liguori

Worship Songs

“Worship songs can’t just be rooted in culture – they won’t be deep enough. They have to be rooted in Scripture.” ~ Matt Redman

Turn It into Testimony

"Don't bear trouble, use it. Take whatever happens - justice and injustice, pleasure and pain, compliment and criticism - take it up into the purpose of your life and make something out of it. Turn it into testimony." ~ E. Stanley Jones

Truth Always Carries...

"Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong." ~ Francis A. Schaeffer