“Today, I'm excited to be talking with Gary Krause. He's the director of Global Mission, and he's going to be sharing with us a little bit about how we can be involved in Global Mission. There's so much happening around the world and you might be wondering ‘How can I be involved? How can I be part of what God is doing around the world?’ So today we're going to be getting a chance to hear from him.”

“Even in conversations that I've had with other pastors there's been this question of, ‘What does that mean, wholistic mission?’ Sometimes there needs to be a little bit of clarity of what that looks like.”

“I can only say what it means to me. To me it’s the way Jesus modeled His mission. On the one hand, He preached and He taught and we can go through the gospels and we can see that. If you get a red letter Bible, you can actually see the words that Jesus spoke, but if you look at it you can see that He spent more of His time healing the sick, ministering to people’s emotional and physical needs. And so, on the one hand He's sharing the good news of the kingdom verbally, but He’s also demonstrating it through His actions.”

“The best summary that I've seen of Christ's method is what Ellen White talks about in the Ministry of Healing, page 143. You have those components of mingling, showing sympathy, ministering to needs, winning confidence, and bidding people to follow Jesus.”

“Life is messy and you can't just say ‘I'm done with stage 1, now I'm moving to stage 2.’ It's a whole picture and if we neglect any of those elements, we sabotage mission. If we are only interested in preaching, teaching, giving people seminars, or giving people bible studies, but we have not invested in their lives, if we haven't listened to them, if we haven’t wept tears with them, if we haven't laughed with them, then they only have an intellectual knowledge of the beliefs that we have given them. But are they going to be grounded as disciples in Jesus? Have they got that network?”

“I use the example of velcro. Velcro sticks things together and if you look at it under a microscope, it's a combination of hooks and loops that come together. You push them together and you pull them apart. If you only have one hook and loop, maybe intellectual knowledge about Jesus, it's very easy to pull apart. But if you had a wholistic connection where Jesus touched your heart, not just your head, and you've actually experienced a fellow Christian caring for your physical needs, you feel a tighter bond. Discipleship is going to be that much stronger.”

“So that's what I'm talking about with wholistic mission. I believe in literature ministry. I think media is wonderful and we need those things, but they can only support, they cannot replace one-on-one contact.”

“Jesus was not content to stay in heaven and send us a leaflet. He wasn’t content to send us the 28 fundamental beliefs on a piece of paper. He actually came down here, He got his hands dirty, He put on human skin, He became one with us, because that’s how you do mission. Sorry, I’m preaching too much.”

“I love it, that's huge. His Incarnational, ‘I am with you.’ It's not an ‘us’ or ‘them’. Where it's like I'm over here. What can ‘we’ do to go over there to reach ‘them?’ but I'm actually here in this. This is a ‘we,’ it's an ‘our,’ ‘we’ are in this together and I'm here to do life with you. Such a different approach. Instead of How can we change them? it’s like Wow, this is changing me, and we're changing together, and let's see where God is taking us together. I love that.”