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Spiritual Insight from some Godly Persons  

 

William Carey

William Carey
1761-1834
English Baptist missionary
to India

"Expect great things from God.
Attempt great things for God."

 

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"When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey;
speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour."

William Carey (1761-1834), known as the "Father and Founder of Modern Missions," was the first missionary to India sent out by the Baptist Missionary Society. On his deathbed he said to Alexander Duff:

Dwight L. Moody
1837-1899
American evangelist

DL Moody

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"Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal- a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.

I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit will live forever.
"
George Muller
George Mόller
1805-1898
English evangelist and philanthropist


"A servant of God
has but one Master.

It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honoured in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised."

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
1834-1892
English preacher, author and editor

"I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus."
 
"If my congregation slept, wake me up!"

 

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Charles Spurgeon
C. T. Studd
1860-1931
English missionary to China, India,
and Africa

"Some want to live
within the sound
of church or chapel bell;
I want to run
a rescue shop
within a yard of hell."

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C.T. Studd

"If Jesus Christ is God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."

如果耶穌基督是神,並且為我而死,那就沒有任何犧牲大致使我不願為他作的了。──施達德CT Studd(環球福音會創辦人)

 Charles Thomas Studd (1860-1931), one of the Cambridge Seven to China & India, Founder of WEC

我人生的唯一目標,就是要窮我所有的方法和力量,以生命、禱告、工作甚至死亡,去將福音帶到世上每一個未得之地、未得之民。

    ──施達德CT Studd(環球福音會創辦人)

Hudson Taylor
1832-1905
English missionary to China
Hudson Taylor

“Let us in everything not sinful become Chinese, that we may by all means “save some”.

Let us adopt their dress, acquire their language, seek to conform to their habits, approximate their diet as far as health and constitution allow.”

 

"Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.

We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!"

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“Missions exists because worship doesn't.... When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more.... But worship abides forever.”John Piper

"The qualification for receiving His Kingdom is not strength but thirst."

- John Piper




Scripture Index to John Piper's Sermons
(1980 through April, 2002)

Courtesy of Coty Pinckney

Old Testament | New Testament
We've divided the single index file into two for your convenience.

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On his deathbed General William Booth made his last request of his son, Bramwell: "I have been thinking very much during the last few nights about China. I greatly regret that the Lord has not permitted me to raise our flag amongst that wonderful people. Promise me that you will begin the work in China." Then father and son clasped hands and prayed together. This was 1912.....from Check Hung Yee's book, "Good Morning China" and cited on page 2
William Booth, Founder & General of The Salvation ArmyThe




back to 'William Booth'


William Booth was born in Nottingham in 1829. At the age of 13 he was sent to work as an apprentice in a pawnbroker's shop to help support his mother and sisters. He did not enjoy his job but it made him only too aware of the poverty in which people lived and how they suffered humiliation and degradation because of it. During his teenage years he became a Christian and spent much of his spare time trying to persuade other people to become Christians too.

 

Polycarp suffered much for Christ's sake as Euseius, the church historian, tells us. The Roman Proconsul commanded him to swear allegiance to Caesar, saying, "Swear, and I will set thee at liberty; reproach Christ." How courageous and magnificent was Polycarp's reply!

"Eighty and six years have I now served Christ, and he has never done me the least wrong; how, then, can I blaspheme my King and my Saviour?"

Polycarp (c.69-c.155-160) Bishop of Smyrna and martyr

"Before an individual can be saved,
he must first learn that he cannot save himself."

M. R. DeHaan, M.D. (1891-1965)
American Bible teacher, physician

"Salvation is a work of God for man,
rather than a work of man for God."

Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952)
American Bible teacher, evangelist, educator, writer

"God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing." Warren Wiersbe

Quotes & Notes

Compiled by Stephen Ross
Herein Is Love

"I can't ! But God can!" Robert Morrison, the first missionary to China in 1807

"No one can know the true grace of God, who has not first known the fear of God." - A. Wilson Tozer

"All Spirit and no Word, you blow up! All Word and no Spirit, you dry up! Word and Spirit - you grow up!" - Donald Gee

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can" - John Wesley


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差傳雋語

上帝所要的,不是偉大的人,而是傳揚偉大的神的人。

————宣信AB Simpson(宣道會創辦人)

 

主啊!我在這裡,請差遣我!差遣我到地極,差遣我到蠻荒異域,差遣我離開一切安逸舒適;若是為你作工,拓大天國,即使要捨身,我也願意。

————布銳奈德David Brauberd(美國宣教士)

 

神不是要用什麽方案去使全地的人歸向他,他只有一個計劃————使用你和我去成就他的大功。————包樂Luis Palau(佈道家)

 

差傳是拓展福音的領域————神國的疆界,不是拓展你或我的教會的勢力範圍, 不是拓展宗派。————陳終道(解經家

 

情願燒盡,不願銹壞!————馬偕(臺灣宣教士)

堂會的主任同工應當是推動差傳事工最大的動力,但也可能是最大的阻力。

──林守光牧師(摘錄自〈成為胸懷普世教會的挑戰〉,《往普天下去》20051-3月號)


祂一直耐心地等候你,回應祂吧!何必再猶疑呢?神愛你,不願你失去事奉祂的福分。

──張子華牧師(摘錄自《約拿也差傳》)


徒有經費的支持,沒有禱告支持,差傳事工又怎能有真正屬靈果效?

──麥希真牧師(《金錢萬能?》代序)

沒有使命,基督教團體便失去其生命力。使命給予基督的身體活力、目的和方向;當教會忽略她是神使命的受託者時,她就是忽略了維持自己生命的血。

──Gailyn Van Rheenen, Missions: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Strategies

萬軍之耶和華說,不是倚靠勢力,不是倚靠才能,乃是倚靠我的靈,方能成事。
──
撒迦利亞書四章6


既然確立了目標──為主而活,人生的使命是見證復活的基督,完成這個目標,是基督徒一生最重要的工作。
──
洪少樂牧師(摘錄自六年四月至六月《循理差傳使者》)


人人都有恩賜可以參與差傳,要不然,有朝一日我們所擁有的都會付諸流水,隨著我們的吝嗇而逐漸失去。
──
招鳳玲姑娘
(
摘錄自〈人人都有恩賜參與差傳〉,《往普天下去》20061-3月號)


沒有一個地方是被上帝遺棄的,僅有一些地方是被教會遺棄的。
──Jon Fuller


神的教會是多元種族的宣教群體,領受召命把福音遍傳,直到基督再臨。
──John R.W. Stott

宣教工場往往是混亂的;因此,宣教士必須能面對混亂的處境和社會局勢,把社會的混亂視為傳福音的契機。

──林安國牧師○六年三月環球宣愛協會成立慶典中談及優質宣教士必須具備五個條件其中一個。

 

 

我們必須舉目向田觀看,看看好土在哪裏、思想一下如何清除那些亂石雜草及荊棘,仔細的把接受福音的心田準備好。

──林治平(摘錄自《改變歷史──華人文化與宣教事工》)

 

 

我們可以面對時代也可以逃避時代。任何時代,正尋找赤誠、勇敢、務實、進取而承傳使命的人。

──朱昌錂牧師(摘錄自○六年一月「中福團」代禱信)

 

 

我常覺得宣教士要有敏感於屬靈爭戰的意識,否則我們會將所遇的事情合理化及偶然化,也很容易落入自怨自艾、無奈沮喪、灰心挫敗的光景中。

──黃淑燕姑娘 (摘錄自〈面對撒但侵擾〉,《往普天下去》20047-9月號)

 

 

在神每個偉大的工作裏,會經過三個階段。第一個是「不可能」,然後是「困難」,之後便是「完成」。

主所應許的尚未成就,有人以為他是耽延,其實不是耽延,乃是寬容你們,不願有一人沉淪。

──彼得後書三章9

跨文化差傳,一早就明知不是易路。偏偏要行,不是出於我的牛脾氣,而是天父的心。

──一位香港宣教士總結時的體驗

教牧差傳負擔有多重,教會就有多大差傳氣候。

──姚慶生牧師(〈談差傳牧師〉,《往普天下去》200310-12月號)

二十三歲的李岱爾(Eric Liddell)在運動生涯的巔峰,天地在腳下任他奔跑的當兒,卻轉換了跑道,面向中國。為甚麼?因為基督的愛激勵催促他。──(《直奔金牌》中文版序)

 因著工作的本質,宣教士成為觸發改變的媒介。        ──Don Richardson

我立了志向,不在基督的名被稱過的地方傳福音,免得建造在別人的根基上。──使徒保羅

宣教動員若要有果效,就要先從我個人開始。

──馮浩鎏醫生(摘錄自〈交棒接棒──興起神國的新一代〉,《宣教心》第四期)


當我們接觸差傳的資料,就需要意識到付諸行動的責任。即使是差傳工人,也可能未曾真正承擔遍傳福音那重大的異象和事工。──George Verwer(摘錄自《走出安樂窩》)

神的教會是多元種族的宣教群體,領受召命把福音遍傳,直到基督再臨。──John R.W. Stott

有些人希望活在教堂鐘聲範圍之內,我卻想在距離地獄一碼之遙的地方,開設一間拯救所。

──C.T. Studd

「趁著白日,我們必須作那差我來者的工,黑夜將到,就沒有人能作工了。」
──
約翰福音九章四節


「『受苦』不應僅停留在心志階段,而是須要徹頭徹尾的實踐。」
──
林兆源牧師(摘錄自〈宣教與受苦心志〉,《宣教心》第二期)


「當我蒙召成為宣教士,就預備自己進入一場戰況激烈的屬靈爭戰中……但神的光明會照遍全地。」──黃淑燕宣教士(摘錄自〈面對撒但侵擾〉,《往普天下去》047-9月號)


「若有機會,那可是非凡的喜樂──被指派遠超所能的任務;只因,任何事一旦完成,顯然掌聲非祂莫屬,而不歸你我!」──摘錄自《艾得理傳──全力以赴的一生》


「差傳不再是梯山航海、深入不毛之地的事工,卻是在世界大城市中穿街過巷的服侍。」
──Ray Bakke

「神仍在尋找願意捨棄、甘心受不公平待遇的子民,在工場上,更常常要預備做不怕吃眼前虧的漢子,來完成神的使命。」──嚴鳳山宣教士(摘錄自〈另一種捨棄〉,《宣教心》第二期)


「他們(越南教會華人信徒)所需要的,不單只是多一本聖經或課程,更需要一個能站在旁邊解說的導師。」
──
何先生勉勵我們成為與初信者同行的朋友和導師,好拓展那個廣大的福音禾場。(見今期《往普天下去》)


「我們必須尊重他們(緬甸山地民族)的意見,因為他們是接受福音的主人,我們為福音作他們的僕人而已。」
──
傳頌(筆名)宣教士闡明一個道理,那就是宣教士須要謙卑學習,從當地文化建立福音的橋樑,作僕人的服侍。(見今期《往普天下去》)


「神啊,求你讓我們可以和緬甸人共生死,雖然我們所能做到的只是為其他人開路而已。」
──
美國第一位國外宣教士耶德遜面對緬甸政府迫害時,記起他和妻子以前曾這樣向神禱告。(摘錄自《緬甸拓荒先鋒耶德遜》)

「一家興旺的教會的記號不是其座位的數目,而是其差遣的能力。」──Mike Stachura

 「醫療不是傳福音的賣點或橋樑,醫治本身必須發自真實的憐憫,才能發動從上而來的生命力。」──陳關韻韶女士(見今期《往普天下去》)

「若我走自己選擇的路,離開祂的計劃,那一生所得的,不論是金錢、地位、聲譽都是徒然的。」──馮鄭珍妮女士(見今期《往普天下去》)

「沒有基督生命的人是可憐的,生活在這股幽禁的氣氛籠罩下,難怪會惶惶不可終日!……現在正是大好的機會,引領他們來投靠我們這位又真又活的主!」──高學敏宣教士在代禱信中提及人們在美伊大戰和非典型肺炎疫症的驚慌中,鼓勵我們見證復活的基督。

「面對家人和朋友的壓力很大,要去應付一切,絕不能單靠一股豪氣或熱誠便可成就。我們須要在神面前完全委身和信靠。」──張旋穗宣教士當年鼓勵那些認真考慮投身醫療宣教的弟兄姊妹。(摘錄自《往普天下去》一九八八年四月號)

「真正的宣教士是一名獨行者,常在凝思默想,坐立不安,直到工場的門為他打開,否則絕不能安息。」──James Nichlson

「我們先要看見基督的奇妙,後有委身的行動回應,而不是先行動,後見主耶穌。」── John Piper

「當我們願意學習為宣教工場和宣教士禱告時,神就讓我們看到個人的責任,也打碎我們冷漠剛硬的心。」──節錄自陳方〈如何提高宣教意識〉,《邁步差傳》。

「讓我們不要忘記短短一星期至數個月的短宣,只不過是享受別人長期辛勞之撒種成果。」──朱昌錂牧師在《顛狂為上帝》提醒信徒參加短宣時,更要看見福音未及異族之心靈的需要。

「當我仍著眼於自己的無能,那就實在太小看神的大能和恩典了。」──姚麗華當實習宣教士時考慮再到羅馬尼亞工場的反省。(摘錄自《往普天下去》二○○○年四至六月號)

「我也想,神容讓我們事奉祂,不是叫我們得著甚麼成就。神容讓我們在事奉中經歷諸般困難,為的是讓我們的生命更加反璞歸真。」──「唐娥」宣教士在新年立志時不理會前路上不利的因素,靠著神恩走使命的路。

「復興以先多有禱告。代禱產生復興;懇切又堅持到底的禱告則令復興持續。
──Frank Damazio, Seasons of Revival

「生命中沒有一位偉大的神,就沒有偉大的宣教異象。」
──
聖公會聖安德烈堂的差傳事工負責人Sarah Capaldi分享差傳心得。(摘錄自《往普天下去》二○○一年十至十二月號)

「我想差傳是一個『使命』的問題而不是一個純參與『列席』的問題。我們需要的是使命,是一種熱力、能力和耐力的事奉。」
節錄自〈差傳「三不是」〉,《往普天下去》一九九七年四至六月號──蘇振強牧師

「所有差傳計劃,必須以建立和栽培宣講神話語的教會為目的,教會亦要以具體行動關心貧窮人。」──羅渣堅尼博士(Roger S. Greenway)在《差傳透視》討論藉宣講與服事作為差傳的實際建議。

「在回教世界中生活了兩年……見到回教徒醜惡的一面,加上他們對基督徒的反感,愛他們真不容易嘛!又想到自己,神愛我又何嘗容易呢?」──敏、堅宣教士在代禱信提及向回教徒傳福音時的反思。

「為何踏上宣教前方者是他?而不是我?」──姚慶生牧師透過心靈反問,希望推動信徒進一步獻身。(《使團快訊》200210-12月號)

「無論在哪兒,當那刻可以為救主做許多事情,那裏便是我們的家。
──
親岑多夫Zinzendorf N., Outline of a History of Protestant Missions

「教會是遍傳福音的目標與媒介,沒有教會的差傳使命是與聖經教導相牴觸的。
──Frank Severn,“Mission societies: Are they biblical?”

「如果有三塊錢用在教會内部事工,就必須將七塊錢用在宣教事工上。」

奧斯華.史密斯Oswald Smith(加拿大多倫多民衆教會創辦人)

「盡你所能的賺取,盡你所能的節省,也盡你所能的給與。」

“Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can”

約翰衛斯理John Wesley(衛理公會會祖)


「讓你的靈魂時常想的不是要更多,乃是要更少。」

十架約翰(St John of the Cross


「因他的禱告,醫院的墻壁被竪起,護士的心被激動;因他的禱告,宣教機構被將建立,宣教士的信心被將堅固;因他的禱告,財主的心門得開,奉獻滾滾而來。」

葛士那Grossner的墓誌銘(德國牧師)


「縱有千個宣教士倒下,也不放棄非洲!」

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