Quotes

So this is Brent here and just wanted to post a few quotes that I thought were interesting. Here goes:

"Our vision for being involved as world-class Christians must be built on the sure foundation of God's Word. Our global commitment emanates out of the heart of God, not out of some popular fad of our times."

"Prayer is our first work in the harvest. And the reason is not hard to find. It is this: the harvest has a 'Lord'. He oversees the harvest. Someone supplies the workers. Someone controls the progress. And that 'Someone' is God. Our first business is not to look at the size of the harvest. Our first business is to pray to our God."

These are quotes from a book I have been reading by Paul Borthwick called How to Be a World-Class Christian. I am not completely convinced about everything that he says in the book although I like these quotes. The book itself when reading through all of it comes across as a little bit off-target on some of the reasons to go on missions and such. It talks a lot about doing missions because of what it can do for us. Not that those things don't happen, but, I do not believe those are reasons for going on missions in and of themselves.

I prefer to agree with what Paul Washer says about missions: Missions is about truth, God's truth and if you can't clearly share His truth, you should not go on missions.(paraphrased from one of his sermons). I believe that this is what the Bible teaches.

Well, signing off for now. I need to hit the sack so that I am not completely worn out at work tomorrow.