“Missions is NOT the ultimate goal of the church.
Worship is.”
“If the essence of worship is satisfaction in God, then worship can’t be a means to anything else. You simply can’t say to God, “I want to be satisfied in You so that I can have something else.”
Because that would mean that you are not really satisfied in God but in that something else.And that would dishonor God, not worship Him.” – John Piper
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 "You shall have no other gods before [a] me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Exodus 20:6
Biggest lesson I learned from staff training:
1) Worship the Lord first; 2) Let everything else flow out from that
As a friend said, "Missions is our call just as much as worship is. Worship without missions is dead worship, it is only self involved. I think we have to begin with worship, missions without it is only duty, and worship is only true when it springs into mission."
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