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Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.

It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.

I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.

I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.

I beg to direct your attention to Africa …. I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity.

We have a threefold primary responsibility. Number 1: Get people saved. Number 2: Get them baptized. Number 3: Get them registered to vote.

Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.

How seriously have you personally taken the Lord's charge to share His gospel? It is a lifelong responsibility ... to be addressed differently according to the various seasons of your life.

The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

In the disposition of these unfortunate people, there are two rational objects to be distinctly kept in view. First. The establishment of a colony on the coast of Africa, which may introduce among the aborigines the arts of cultivated life, and the blessings of civilization and science. By doing this, we may make to them some retribution for the long course of injuries we have been committing on their population.

We have a growing interest in Africa’s success.

I go back to Africa to make a path for commerce and Christianity.

I will devote the rest of my life to God’s plan and help to make the rest of the world English.

With globalization mounting, the rules teaching us to live globally other than nationally are increasingly becoming meaningful

Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children.

The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border.

No one really disagrees that all of humanity has a responsibility to protect fellow citizens in a time of need.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.

Trump errs on the side of bluster sometimes for effect, but I don't think that the people who voted for him, most of them, would ever be for not caring for immigrants or refugees. People in the church know it's our obligation.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

In the future, I would like to become a missionary. I'd like to go to countries where I have received much love as a musician and personally return all of that love.

I found incredible kindness, dignity and hospitality in both Iraq and Afghanistan - am only alive because of it - the most worthwhile lesson of a twenty month walk to these countries was a deepening appreciation of the kindness of strangers.