David Bosch quotes

“Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.”
-- David Bosch

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“Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.”
-- David Bosch

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“Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine of the missio dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit [is] expanded to include yet another “movement”: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sending the church into the world.”
-- David Bosch

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“Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.”
-- David Bosch

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“If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.”
-- David Bosch

Source : David J. Bosch (2006). “Witness To The World: The Christian Mission in Theological Perspective”, p.82, Wipf and Stock Publishers

#Ignorance Quotes #Character Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.”
-- David Bosch

Source : David J. Bosch (1991). “Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission”, p.381, Orbis Books

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“To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.”
-- David Bosch

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“The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.”
-- David Bosch

Source : David J. Bosch (2001). “A Spirituality of the Road”, p.77, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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“American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.”

“I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.”

“I had the constitution of a missionary.”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

“An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.”

“The defining mission of the Muslim Brotherhood is the implementation of sharia.”

“We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.”

“I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.”

“I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.”

“Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.”

“I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.”

Source : Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998