“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is.

Missions exists because worship doesn’t.”

“The gospel demand … is an eminently shareable, doable demand, namely to rejoice and be glad in God. ‘The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad’ (Psalm 97:1)… ‘In your presence is fullness of joy… and pleasures forever’ (Psalm 16:11).”

—John Piper, Let the Nations be Glad  

“The God of the Bible is by nature a sending God, a missionary God. The Father sends the Son; the Son sends the Spirit and the disciples into the world. Therefore the whole church is in mission; every Christian is in mission. God never calls you in to bless you without also sending you out to be a blessing (Gen. 12:1-3; 1 Pet. 2:9). So a Christian is not a spiritual consumer, coming in to get his or her emotional needs met, and then going home. A missional church, then, is one that trains and encourages its people to be in mission as individuals and as a body.”   —Tim Keller, Center Church