Worship is the Fuel of Missions

 
These quotes always make me smile and get excited about God, worship, and missions.  So I'm sharing, and hopefully they make you smile too!

"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church.  Worship is.  Missions exists because worship doesn't.  Worship is ultimate, not missions because God is ultimate, not man.  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.  It is a temporary necessity.  But worship abides forever. "

“Worship…is the fuel and goal of missions.  It’s the goal of missions because in missions we simply aim to bring the nations into the whit-hot enjoyment of God’s glory.  The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God…Missions begins and ends in worship.”

“The most passionate heart for God in all the universe is God’s heart.  This truth, more than any other I know, seals the conviction that worship is the fuel and goal of missions.  The deepest reason why our passion for God should fuel missions is that God’s passion for God fuels missions.  Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God.  And the deepest reason why worship is the goal in missions is that worship is God’s goal.  We are confirmed in this goal by the Biblical record of God’s relentless pursuit of praise among the nations.  ‘Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!’ (Ps. 117:1) If it is God’s goal it must be our goal.”

 John Piper, Let the Nations be Glad