“Expect great things. Attempt great things.” (Later tradition would add “from God” and “for God,” though this is undoubtedly what he meant.)3 He would publish his famous An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.4 Here he would pen searing words for the church of his day as well as our own. Commenting on the Great Commission text, found in Matthew 28:16–20, Carey wrote: This commission was as extensive as possible, and laid them under obligation