What Gospel Rescue Missions Are About
- Rescue — Pulling people to safety from adverse conditions, and from choices and habits that lead to damaged health and death
- Redemption — Presenting people with a gospel that is about life transformation in Jesus, and the reclamation of His creation
- Rehabilitation — Helping people break the bonds of addiction and desperate behavior, and experience a life of healing and wholeness
- Re-assimilation — Preparing people to dwell in community, and to have meaningful roles that lead to stability and missional living
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Famous quotes containing the words gospel, rescue and/or missions:
“The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out.
The first Commandment is—never let them get anything on you—
The second: Graft—get privileges others haven’t got—worm yourself into confidence
The Third—seem neat and prosperous—as if you had money in the bank—”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)