"Language is more than just a string of words; it is a cumulative articulated coordinate of ideas. With nothing behind it or before it, language evaporates." —Lamin Sanneh
#TranslationTuesday
"Every dimension of our mission flows from the lordship of Christ, and from the will and mission of God that the whole world and all creation will come to recognize that fact, and in doing so will come to know, love, praise, and worship our Creator and Redeemer." —Chris Wright
“We now know that God is like Jesus. He is Christ-like. And if He is, He is a good God. If the Heart at the back of the universe is like this gentle heart that broke upon the Cross, He can have my heart without qualification and without reservation.” –E. Stanley Jones
"There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice, it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success, it is because someone will succeed after." —Adoniram Judson
'When I read Anabaptist history, and Early Church history as well, what I found is not a people hiding in the back of a hollar hoping that the world doesn't come and pollute them with their sin. I found people charging the gates of Hell with the Gospel to conquer a world and turn it upside down...
"Jesus wants a society of redeemed people to show the world what the whole world would look like if everybody obeyed the King." —John D Martin
"We cannot go forth in mission to the world without attending to ourselves. This is not to suggest that we have to wait until we are perfect before we engage in mission. There never would have been any mission – Old or New Testament – if that had been the case. It means that part of our...
“We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity and have aged into calculating manhood. We seldom pray in earnest for the extraordinary, the limitless, the glorious. We seldom pray with real confidence for any good to the realization of which we cannot imagine in any way. And yet we...
“Jesus does not write a book to transmit the good news to succeeding generations. Instead, he chooses, prepares and commissions a community to make the goal of universal history known.” —Mike Goheen
"The Bible addresses issues that missionaries don’t. People in different situations see things in the Bible that others miss. Missionaries come with a whole load of cultural baggage and they will never be able to see the Bible in the way that people from a very different culture will. By making...