Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places Quotes

“There is an invitation to humility in walking with Christ in a dangerous place. We are not the saviors. We are flesh-and-blood human beings called to be His presence, to love people He loves, and to share His stories with them. It’s God who births faith in people’s hearts.4”
― Kate McCord, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places

“A young student in America asked me what the hardest thing was about living and working on the field. Immediately, a list of challenges scrolled through my mind, but I think this is the hardest: sometimes we give everything we have only to find that it’s not enough.”
― Kate McCord, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places

“So we, God’s servants, go, our Master’s invitation in our hands, out to the highways and hedges. We walk through squalid refugee camps in Syria, fetid open-air trash dumps in Mozambique, drug-infested smoky brothels in Bangkok. We go because deep in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan and out on the dusty plains of Iraq, there are people whom God wants to come to His feast. There are people hidden away in small villages in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan who belong at God’s table. There are women in Somalia; street kids in Portland, Oregon; girls in northern Nigeria; and men in Chechnya and a thousand other places who belong in God’s house. God sees them, every one of them, people drawing water from open wells, drinking tea in mud houses, scheming evil in dark camps, hiding from violence in rough caves. He knows their names and faces and voices and laughter and tears. He knows their fears and dreams and joys and sorrows. He was there when they were born, when they fell down, and when they got up—and He wants to share the blessings of all He has with them. This is the heart of God—generous, loving, kind, patient—always ready to bless. He’s prepared His table from the foundations of the earth, and there is still room.”
― Kate McCord, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places

“Why does God call us to dangerous places, to the highways and the hedges of the world? Because God’s house is not yet full. Because there are places that are empty and guests who have not yet received their invitation.”
― Kate McCord, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places

“And this is the thing I must remember, always; the world is full of frightened and frightening men and women whom God loves with a love so rich and so deep that no matter what they do, He still wants to bring them home.”
― Kate McCord, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places

“Jesus calls us to dangerous places because He loves people who live in dangerous places. He loves the perpetrators of violence and the victims of violence. He loves the children and the old, the men and the women, the rich and the poor.”
― Kate McCord, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places

“In the midst of our pain-filled conversation, I recognized that we were sitting in the sacred, the holy. We had brushed against the eternal, transcendent God. Our trauma, sorrow, and grief were interwoven with grace, love, and even, though it’s impossible to explain, joy.”
― Kate McCord, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places

“Later that evening the three of us—Lars, Noa, and I—sat together, breathed, and shared our stories. Noa talked about shock, fear, and deep sadness. Lars described his chains and helplessness. I spoke of shock and numbness. If our conversation had stayed there, I think we would have drowned. Instead, I noticed something subtle but deep. We each shared glimpses, soft touches of grace. We reflected on how God had prepared us before the crisis to walk through it. We talked about the different ways He had been with each of us through the long season of Lars’s captivity. We reflected on the gentleness with which He had held us when the kidnapping was over and we each lay wounded, exhausted, and confused in His arms. We spoke these things through tears and trembling words. In doing so, we touched threads of Christ’s presence woven through a dense and traumatic tapestry. It was not a conversation of exultant victory. There was no celebratory glory, but there was certainly glory.”
― Kate McCord, Why God Calls Us to Dangerous Places