Another collection of Quotes

 

1. “I have but one can of life to burn and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light” John Keith Falconer

2. It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage. Samuel Marsden

3. We have all eternity to tell of victories won for Christ, but we have only a few hours before sunset to win them. Anonymous GOC

4. Its amazing what can be accomplished if you don’t worry about who gets the credit. Clarence W. Jones

5. If we are going to wait until every possible hindrance has been removed before we do a work for the Lord, we will never attempt to do anything. TJ Back

6. “Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.” J Hudson Taylor

7. Here am I, Send Me! Isaiah

8. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot

9. I have but one passion – it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world: and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ. Count Zinsindorf

10. I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth. James O. Fraser

11. This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Jesus 2 –32 – forever

12. We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. Oswald J smith

13. His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice. John Stott

14. Tell the students t five up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ. Francis Xavier

15. Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell. CT Studd

16. Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?… “ It is more a guestion with me whether we who have the Gospel and fail to five it to those who have not, can be saved. CH Spurgean

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

18. I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light" -- John Keith Falconer

19. "God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" -- Hudson Taylor [ video ]

20. "God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" -- Hudson Taylor

21. "The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" -- Hudson Taylor

22. "If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" -- Hudson Taylor

23. "Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" -- William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions [ more info ]

24. "The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." -- Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

25. "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950's trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador [ info on video ] [ brief biography ]\

26. "We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it" -- P.F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene

27. "In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been" -- Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone

28. "Can't you do just a little bit more?" -- J.G. Morrison pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries

29. "Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us." -- Keith Wright

30. "The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" -- Ralph Winter, U.S. Center for World Mission

31. "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." -- C.T. Studd

32. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -- C.T. Studd

33. "No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." -- Oswald J. Smith [ more on Oswald Smith ]

34. "This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" -- Keith Green

35. "There is nothing in the world or the Church -- except the church's disobedience -- to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility." -- Robert Speer, leader in Student Volunteer Movement

36. "If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death." -- Dave Davidson

37. "If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" -- Jordan Groom (variations of this also credited to G. K. Chesterson, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

38. "World missions was on God's mind from the beginning." -- Dave Davidson

39. "Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart" -- Bob Pierce, World Vision founder

40. "No reserves. No retreats. No regrets" -- William Borden

41. "The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating." -- unknown

42. When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."

43. "Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we -- who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not -- can be saved." -- Charles Spurgeon

44. "God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." -- Hudson Taylor, missionary to China [ video ]

45. "The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" -- Carl F. H. Henry

46. "Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop." -- Kurt von Schleicher [ Apple pickers' parable ]

47. "Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." --John Piper

48. "You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." -- Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

49. "Only as the church fulfills her missionary obligation does she justify her existence." -- Unknown

50. "As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both." -- J. L. Ewen

51. "The mission of the church is missions" -- Unknown

52. "Sympathy is no substitute for action." -- David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

53. "The command has been to 'go,' but we have stayed -- in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth ... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland." -- Robert Savage, Latin American Mission

54. "People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." -- Nate Saint, missionary martyr [ devotional thoughts ]

55. "We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God." -- John Stott

56. "Believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story." -- K.P. Yohannan, founder of Gospel for Asia Bible Society

57. "We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." -- Oswald J. Smith

58. "Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ." -- Francis Xavier, missionary to India, the Philippines, and Japan

59. "The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." -- Mike Stachura

60. "'Not called!' did you say? Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. -- William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

61. "It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not." -- Peter Taylor Forsyth

62. If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere. -- Edward Lawlor, Nazarene General Superintendent

63. "Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." -- Robert C. Shannon

64. "People who don't believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South." -- J. Howard Edington

65. "It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions." -- John R. Mott

66. "In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer." -- Dick Eastman, president of Every Home for Christ (formerly World Literature Crusade)

67. "What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?" -- Eleanor Roat, missions mobilizer

68. "We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer." -- Wesley Duewel, head of OMS International

69. "Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" -- Roderick Davis

70. "Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love" -- Roland Allen

71. "I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand villages - villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world."
    - Robert Moffat

72. "The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth…But 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland."
    - Robert Savage

73. "While vast continents are shrouded in darkness…the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field."
    - Ion Keith-Falconer

74. "I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done for China…I don't know who it was…It must have been a man…a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing…and God looked down…and saw Gladys Aylward…And God said - "Well, she's willing."
    - Gladys Aylward

75. "Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees."
    - J. Hudson Taylor

76. "The man…looking at him with a smile that only half concealed his contempt, inquired, "Now Mr. Morrison do you really expect that you will make an impression on the idolatry of the Chinese Empire?" "No sir," said Morrison, "but I expect that God will."
    - Robert Morrison

77. "Here am I. Send me."
    - Isaiah

78. "And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives…and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted."
    - Nate Saint

79. "Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians"
    - Leonard Ravenhill

80. "Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary."
    - C.T. Studd

81. "Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, he will do it without your aid or mine."
    - said to a young William Carey

82. "Oh, that I had a thousand lives, and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals."
    - Robert Moffat

83. "We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God."
    - John Stott

84. "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
    - Jim Elliot

85. "A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story."
    - K.P. Yohannan

86. "I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ."
    - Count Zinzindorf

87. "God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies."
    - J. Hudson Taylor

88. "He must increase, but I must decrease."
    - John the Baptist

89. "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
    - C.T. Studd

90. "The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner."
    - William Cameron Townsend

91. "Prepare for the worst, expect the best, and take what comes."
    - Robert E. Speer

92. "The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a "field full of wheat and tares."
    - Amy Carmichael

93. "I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth."
    - James O. Fraser

94. "It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause."
    - David Bryant

95. "If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray."
    - Frederick Franson

96. "What are we here for, to have a good time with Christians or to save sinners?"
    - Malla Moe

97. "I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver."
    - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

98. "It's amazing what can be accomplished if you don't worry about who gets the credit."
    - Clarence W. Jones

99. "Two distinguishing marks of the early church were: 1) Poverty 2) Power."
    - T.J. Bach

100. "Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give."
     - David Livingstone

101. "From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross."
     - Sadhu Sundar Singh

102. "I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been."
     - Lottie Moon

103. "All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient."
     - William Carey

104. "How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves."
     - C.T. Studd

105. "I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to."
     - Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

106. "The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities there are for God to do something."
     - Clarence W. Jones

107. "Expect great things from God. Attempt great thing for God."
     - William Carey

108. "God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith."
     - Andrew A. Bonar

109. "All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!"
     - Jonathan Goforth

110. "The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West."
     - E. Stanley Jones

111. "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come."
     - Jesus

112. "All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ."
     - Keith Green

113. "Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them"
     - A.W. Tozer

114. "I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares."
     - Alexander Duff

115. "Today Christians spend more money on dog food then missions"
     - Leonard Ravenhill

116. "It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home."
     - J. Hudson Taylor

117. "We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first."
     - Oswald J. Smith

118. "God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know."
     - David Bryant

119. "And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man's foundation."
     - Paul

120. "Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?"
     - K.P. Yohannan

121. "If every Christian is already considered a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs to get up and go anywhere to preach the gospel. But if our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged."
     - C. Gordon Olson

122. "I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!"
     - George Miley

123. "Oh dear, I couldn't say that my church is alive and I wouldn't want to call it dead. I guess it's just walking in its sleep!"
     - Church member

124. "When he landed in 1848 there were no Christians here; when he left in 1872 there were no heathen."
     - said of John Geddie

125. "At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself."
     - John G. Paton

126. "Save others, snatching them out of the fire."
     - Jude

127. "The evangelization of the world in this generation."
     - Student Volunteer Movement Motto

128. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring"
     - Jesus

129. "Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't."
     - John Piper

130. "His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice."
     - John Stott

131. "Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them."
     - David Bryant

132. "Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ."
     - Francis Xavier

133. "Christ for the students of the world, and the students of the world for Christ."
     - Luther Wishard

134. "We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives."
     - George Verwer

135. "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell."
     - C.T. Studd

136. "When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone"
     - J. Hudson Taylor

137. "God has huge plans for the world today! He is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost ends of the earth."
     - David Smithers

138. "The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."
     - Mike Stachura

139. "Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.'"
     - C.H. Spurgeon

Sample wedding Outline - From the Book of Common prayer

 

Processional - Trumpet Volunteer Purcel

Welcome by the Minister: Minister

Hymn

1. Praise, My Soul the King of Heaven;

To His feet thy tribute bring.

Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,

Who like thee His praise should sing?

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise the everlasting King

2. Praise Him for His grace and favour

To our fathers in distress;

Praise Him, still the same for ever,

Slow to chide and swift to bless.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Glorious in His faithfulness.

3. Father-like, He tends and spares us;

Well our feeble frame He knows;

In His hands He gently bears us,

Rescues us from all our foes.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Widely as His mercy flows.

4. Angels in the height, adore Him;

Ye behold Him face to face;

Sun and moon, bow down before Him,

Dwellers all in time and space.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise with us the God of grace!

Prayer- Minister

Almighty and Everlasting God, to You all hearts are open and all desires known. Direct, sanctify and govern our hearts and bodies in the ways of your laws and in the works of Your commandments; purify our thoughts through Your Holy Spirit, that we may love You with heart and mind and praise You as we ought : through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Wedding

Minister

<GROOM>, will you have <BRIDE> to be your wife? Will you live with her in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love her, honour her and care for her, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to her, and her alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Minister

<BRIDE>, will you have <GROOM> to be your husband? Will you live with him in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love him, honour him and care for him, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to him, and him alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Groom

I, <GROOME>, take you <BRIDE>,

to be my wife,

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better for worse,

For richer for poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Bride

I, <BRIDE>, take you <GROOM>,

to be my husband,

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better for worse,

For richer for poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Minister

Bless, O Lord, these rings, given and received as a sign of love and faithfulness. Amen.

Groom

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness

I honour you with my body,

And all my possessions I share with you.

Bride

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness between us.

Bride

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness

I honour you with my body,

And all my possessions I share with you.

Groom

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness

between us.

Minister

As <GROOM> and <BRIDE> have consented together in Marriage, and have made their pledge to one another before God and this congregation, and have declared it by joining of hands, and by giving and receiving of rings, I declare that they are now husband and wife. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve, and keep these your children; may the God of Love, mercy and grace fill your lives to overflowing; that you might be a witness to this generation and generations to come of His perfect Love, Grace and Peace; and that all might believe, praising the living God with life everlasting.

Prayers- Bride and Groom

Hymn

1. No eye has seen

and no ear has heard

and no mind has ever conceived

the glorious things that You have prepared

for every one who has believed:

You brought us near

and You called us your own

and made us joint heirs with Your Son

How high and how wide,

how deep and how long,

how sweet and how strong is Your love:

How lavish Your grace

How faithful Your ways,

how great is Your love, O Lord?

2. Objects of mercy, who should have known wrath,

we're filled with unspeakable joy

riches of wisdom unsearchable wealth

and the wonder of knowing Your voice

You are our treasure and our great

reward our hope and our glorious king.

How high and how wide,

how deep and how long,

how sweet and how strong is Your love:

How lavish Your grace

How faithful Your ways,

how great is Your love, O Lord?

1. My Lord, What Love is this

that pays so dearly,

That I , the guilty one,

may go free

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

2. And so they watched Him die,

despised, rejected:

But oh, the blood he shed

flowed for me

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

3. And now this love of Christ

shall flow like rivers;

Come wash your guilt away,

Live again!

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

Old Testament Reading

Deuteronomy 6:4-18 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.

Do what is right and good in the Lord's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers,"

Hymn

1. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free;

rolling as a mighty ocean

in its fullness over me.

Underneath me, all around me,

is the current of Thy love;

leading onward, leading homeward,

to my glorious rest above.

2. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Spread His praise from shore to shore,

how He loveth, ever loveth,

changeth never, nevermore;

how He watches o'er His loved ones;

died to call them all His own;

how for them He intercedeth,

watches over them from the throne.

3. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Love of every love the best;

>tis an ocean vast of blessing,

>tis a haven sweet of rest.

O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

>tis a heaven of heavens to me;

and it lifts me up to glory,

for it lifts me up to Thee.

New Testament Reading

1 John 4:7-21 "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother."

Hymn

1. I give You all the honour

and praise that's due Your name,

for You are the king of Glory,

the creator of all things.

And I worship You,

I give my life to You,

I fall down on my knees

Yes, I worship You,

I give my life to You,

I fall down on my knees.

2. You have broken chains that bound me,

You've set this captive free,

I will lift my voice to praise Your name

for all eternity.

And we worship You,

We give our lives to You,

we fall down on our knees

Yes, we worship You,

we give our lives to You,

we fall down on our knees.

Sermon- A Real Love

Hymn

Be Thou my vision,

O Lord of my Heart;

Naught be all else to me,

save that Thou art.

Thou my best thought,

by day or by night,

waking or sleeping,

Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my wisdom,

Thou my true Word;

I ever with Thee,

Thou with me, Lord;

Though my great Father,

I Thy true son;

Thou in me dwelling,

and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle-shield,

sword for the fight,

be Thou my dignity,

Thou my delight.

Thou my soul's shelter,

Thou my high tower:

raise Thou me heavenward,

O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not,

nor man's empty praise,

Thou mine inheritance,

now and always:

Thou and Thou only,

first in my heart,

High King of heaven,

my treasure Thou art.

High King of heaven,

after victory won,

may I reach heaven's joys,

O Bright heaven's Sun!

Heart of my own heart,

whatever befall,

still be my vision,

O ruler of all.

Prayers

Hymn

O Breath of life,

come sweeping through us,

Revive your church with life and power;

O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us

And fit Thy church to meet this hour.

O Wind of God,

come bend us, break us

Till humbly we confess our need;

Then, in Thy tenderness

remake us, revive, restore:

for this we plead.

O Breath of love

come breathe within us,

Renewing thought and will and heart;

Come, love of Christ, afresh to win us,

Revive Thy church in every part!

Revive us, Lord; is zeal abating

While harvest fields are vast and white?

Revive us, Lord, the world is waiting,

Equip Thy church to spread the Light.

The Signing of the Register

Bride and groom depart 

Holst - Jupiter

Book of Common Prayer Wedding Vow's

Minister

Groom, will you have Bride to be your wife? Will you live with her in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love her, honour her and care for her, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to her, and her alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Minister

Bride, will you have Groom to be your husband? Will you live with him in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love him, honour him and care for him, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to him, and him alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Goom

I, <Groom>, take you Bride, to be my wife, 

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better for worse,

For richer for poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Bride

I, <Bride>, take you Groom,

 to be my husband,

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better for worse,

For richer for poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Minister

Bless, O Lord, these rings, given and received as a sign of love and faithfulness. Amen.

Groom

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness I honour you with my body, And all my possessions I share with you.

Bride 

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness between us.

Bride 

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness I honour you with my body, And all my possessions I share with you.

Groom

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness between us.

Minister

As Groom and Bride have consented together in Marriage, and have made their pledge to one another before God and this congregation, and have declared it by joining of hands, and by giving and receiving of rings, I declare that they are now husband and wife. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve, and keep these your children; may the God of Love, mercy and grace fill your lives to overflowing; that you might be a witness to this generation and generations to come of His perfect Love, Grace and Peace; and that all might believe, praising the living God with life everlasting.

We have to win that world..... Winston Churchill

This is no time to speak of the hopes of the future, or the broader world which lies beyond our struggles and our victory. We have to win that world for our children. We have to win it by our sacrifices. We have not won it yet. The crisis is upon us....In this strange, terrible world war there is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. The mine, the factory, the dockyard, the salt sea waves, the fields to till, the home, the hospital, the chair of the scientist, the pulpit of the preacher. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honour; all have their part to play.

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, December 30, 1941,

 Speech to the Canadian Senate and House of Commons, Ottawa

God’s cause will triumph - William Carey

When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well I have God and His Word is true. Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word, would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial. God’s cause will triumph.

William Carey

Prayer Is - Brother Andrew

 It's not the preparation for battle; 

    prayer is the battle.

‑Brother Andrew

Communication - Michael Been

 Communication

How do you feel when the talks break down

How do you feel when the lines are broken

What do you say when love can't be found

What do you do when the truth's not said

What appeals to me

Can't appeal to everyone

What is real for me

Can't be real for everyone

How do you feel when the talks break down

What do you do when the door won't open

What do you say when love can't be found

How do you care when your heart grows cold

What it means to me

Is not the same For everyone

What is real for me

Can't be real for everyone

Still unforgiving, our eyes turn away

Holding us back, holding us back

What d you do when the talks break down

You against me, when it makes no sense

Stronger and harder we hold our ground

We've poised our trust now it's self defence

What it means to me

For one I can't be sure at all

I can see no difference

Between you and me at all

Life on the edge is a way of life here

Life on the edge

Privilege

How do you feel when the talks break down

How do you feel when the lines are broken

What do you say when love can't be found

What do you do when the truth's not said

What appeals to me

Can't appeal to everyone

What is real for me

Can't be real for everyone

Still unforgiving, our eyes turn away

Holding us back, Holding us back

How do you feel when the talks break down

How do you feel when the lines are broken

What do you say when love can't be found

What do you do when the truth's not said

William Barclay Quotes

William Barclay

• A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
• But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
• Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. 
• For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him. 
• God himself took this human flesh upon him.
• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. 
• In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
• Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. 
• Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. 
• The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. 
• The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. 
• There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
• We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. 
• When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
• When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. 

Change the world - The Aeronauts

 You don't change the world simply by looking at it. You change the world by the way you choose to live in it. Look up, the Sky's Open!

Felicity Jones as Amelia Wren The Aeronauts

Preaching the gospel requires us to . . . - JI Packer

In the Bible, the gospel is the entire saving plan of God, all revolving around the person, the place and power of our Savior Jesus Christ, the incarnate, crucified, risen, reigning, returning Lord.

Preaching the gospel requires us to show how Jesus Christ relates to every part of God's plan, and how every part of it relates to us who are savingly related to the living Christ through faith.

Evangelism involves explaining life in Christ as well as inviting sinners to Him. This means dealing with six main topics, as follows:

1. The Truth about God. 

The one God who made and rules everything is revealed as three persons through His plan of salvation. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit love us, and work together to save us from sin and make us holy. Jesus Christ, God the Son incarnate, is Lord over all the powers of evil. Any other view of God is idolatry.

2. The Truth about Ourselves.

We were made for God, to bear His image and be like Him in moral character, but sin controls and spoils us so that we need to be brought back to God to be forgiven and remade. Jesus Christ, who brings us back, is Himself the model of true godliness. Any other view is deception.

3. The Story of God's Kingdom.

Step by step, as Scripture tells, God has been working to establish His kingdom in this fallen world. Jesus Christ is the King, and our lives are to be His kingdom. King Jesus is also the Judge, and those who have not bowed to His kingship here will not share His joy hereafter. Trusting, loving and honoring Jesus, and serving others for His sake, is true godliness at its heart. Any other form of religion is error.

4. The Way of Salvation.

Jesus Christ, our sin‑bearer on the cross, now from His throne reaches out to rescue us who are lost in the guilt and shame of sin. He calls for faith (trust in Him as Savior) and repentance (turn to Him as Master). He sends His Holy Spirit to change us inwardly so that we hear His call as addressed to us personally and respond wholeheartedly to it. Whereupon we are forgiven and accepted (justified); received as God's children (adopted); made to rejoice at our peace with Him (assurance); and made to realize that now we are living a new life in Christ (regeneration). Any other view of salvation is deficient.

5. The Life of Fellowship.

Christians belong in the church, the family of God, sharing its worship, work, witness and warfare, and enjoying its worldwide brotherhood in Christ. Any other view of the Christian is sectarian.

6. Walking Home to Heaven.

Helped by the ministry in the church of word and sacrament, prayer and pastoral care, spiritual gifts and loving support, Christians live in our constantly hostile world as travelers, heading for a glorious destination. Led and inspired by their Savior through the Holy Spirit, they seek to do all the good they can as they go, and to battle all forms of evil that they meet. Any lesser view of the Christian life is wordly.

All this is permanently and universally true, transcending all differences of color, race, culture, age, gender, health, economic standing, social position and political background. As the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit sustain us all, so the gospel levels us all, teaching us to know ourselves as great sinners saved by God's greater grace, and to see all non‑Christians as needing that same grace themselves.

For reflection and Consideration:

1. How completely am I preaching the Gospel?

2. Which of these six Gospel topics do I need to preach more fully than I have been preaching?

3. Am I including the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in my preaching?

4. Am I properly explaining the saving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ?

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Amsterdam 2000 may have differed significantly from this text.

J.I. Packer

The Content of the Gospel