The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
Interpretation
The Great Commission is an imperative directive that requires adherence and action rather than mere contemplation.
Hudson Taylor's quote emphasizes the significance of the Great Commission as a non-negotiable directive for followers to actively engage in spreading their faith. Rather than viewing it as a choice, it is articulated as a command that calls for immediate and obedient action, highlighting the importance of fulfilling one's responsibilities in leadership and spiritual missions.
In practice
A pastor using this quote during a sermon to inspire the congregation to partake in missionary work.
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!
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
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.
The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
The reason we are here is thinking, 'What can we do to make this club a better club?' I don't want the guys to think about what the club can do for them.
In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.
The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.
You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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