Missions and Worship

I'm gearing up for my Neighborhoods and Nations small group tonight in which we will be talking about Missions. John Piper's Let the Nations Be Glad radically impacted my views on missions. This kinda sums it up:

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t…worship therefore is the fuel and goal of missions. It’s the goal of missions because in missions we simply aim to bring the nations into the white hot enjoyment of God’s glory.”