Rick Warren Quotes

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Our No. 1 goal on this Earth is to make disciples. That's the only job we want to do.

It takes a lot of money to do what we do. We have brought over 122 million people to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

I'm out to take the Bible, create disciples who make disciples, disciple cycles.

It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by "attraction": just as Christ "draws all to himself" by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission.

Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little ones. Spread these nets and no others, and you need not fear the fulfillment of His word, 'I will make you fishers of men.'

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

The rediscovery of the value of one's own Baptism is at the root of every Christian's missionary commitment, because as we see in the Gospel, those who allow themselves to be fascinated by Christ cannot fail to witness to the joy of following in his footsteps... We understand ever more that it is precisely in virtue of Baptism that we possess a co-natural missionary vocation.

Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom!

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable of responding to the challenges of our times and prepared to spread the Gospel far and wide.

I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.

We need missionaries to match our message.

When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.