Philip Anthony Mitchell — Quotes Affirmed

"I see a Christianity that is dishonourable to the Lord, and one that has lost reverence and fear of God. I see a saturation, a preaching of love and grace, and not enough preaching about wrath and judgement and hellfire."

Mitchell is naming a real imbalance, and Scripture backs the diagnosis. The apostolic gospel never separated the love of God from His judgement: Paul preached the kindness of God and the severity of God in the same breath, and grounded his evangelism in a fixed day of reckoning. A message that keeps the comfort and drops the warning is not a kinder gospel — it is a partial one, and a partial gospel leaves people unprepared for the thing they most need to be prepared for. The caution to keep alongside it is that judgement must be preached the way Scripture preaches it — in order to bring people to repentance, not to bludgeon them, and never as a lever for the preacher's own authority.

"We need to be about the business of the spread of the gospel… winning souls, multiplying disciples… I'm preaching like a man running out of time."

The urgency Mitchell describes is the ordinary posture of the New Testament, not an excess. Jesus tied His own work to a closing window; Paul told the church to redeem the time. The name of Mitchell's congregation is taken from the Great Commission text itself, and the commission is not merely to win converts but to make disciples who are taught to obey — a distinction that separates genuine multiplication from crowd-gathering. Urgency is biblical; the test of it is whether it produces taught, obedient disciples or simply larger numbers.