Gospel Meditations for Missions is a devotional book intended to stir ordinary Christians with the urgency of the Great Commission. Written by Chris Anderson, J. D. Crowley, David Hosaflook, Tim Keesee, and Joe Tyrpak, each of the 31 articles is biblical, warm-hearted, and centered on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
“Soon after I arrived in Albania, I was begging God to help me love as He loves and grieve as He grieves. A muezzin began to howl from one of our city’s many mosques.” (source)
“On the contrary, He’s the Planner of salvation. The Initiator. The Accomplisher. The Goal. In the memorable first words of John Piper’s Let the Nations Be Glad, ‘Missions exists because worship doesn’t.’ God is seeking worshipers in order to display His glorious grace (Ephesians 1:6, 12, 14).” (source)
“Engage devout people of other faiths, and ask them for simple explanations on issues like sin, justice, mercy, forgiveness, and eternal life.” (source)
“God is seeking worshipers. It’s amazing. It’s life-shaping. It’s the plotline of the whole Bible” (source)
“Christ was ‘in him’ (Colossians 1:27–29), so he grew to love what Christ loves and lament what Christ laments. When Paul ‘saw the city wholly given to idolatry,’ something both awful and wonderful happened within him. His spirit was stirred (v. 16). His gut was wrenched. A lump of grief knotted his throat. A surge of holy jealousy flushed his face because God—his God, the only true God—was being … maligned?… No, that wasn’t it … Rejected?… No, that wasn’t quite it either. Alas, his God was … totally … unknown (v. 23)!” (source)