Quotes about ministry

You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right

To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

The deeper you go in ministry, the more the enemy wants to be an irritant in your marriage.

There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life.

We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well

If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us

Many things can be released into our lives in the spirit realm through a ministry

Where did Jesus’ ministry resources come from? The Scriptures give eight sources of possible income for the moneybag carried by Judas. The following Scriptures will show that Jesus never asked the synagogue congregants for free-will offerings. Nor do we see the synagogue leaders asking people to make offerings to Jesus. The custom in Jesus’ time involved charity and taking care of the needs of travelers including those who preached?

He stretches forth in our soul, Teaches our arms how to reach.Our feet He has shod,With His gospel of peace.

Prayer is a mighty ministry that any believer can have—anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstance.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

The priesthood of Christ is “not according to the law of a fleshy commandment, but according to the power of an indestructible life” (Heb. 7:16). Aaron was constituted high priest according to the powerless letter of the law, but Christ according to the powerful element of an indestructible life. Our High Priest is constituted of a life which nothing can conquer, but which rather conquers everything! It is a life which cannot be destroyed. A life which saves to the uttermost. The endless, eterna

All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.

In my prayer journey I’ve been motived by many lesser aspirations like guilt, approval before others and even a ego-driven desire for church growth. Of course, a passion for revival can even trigger more prayers. Yet, in the long run, we must remember that there is a difference between seeking revival from God vs. seeking God for revival.

Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.

Will you not this day make it your prayer? "Lord, help me to glorify Thee; I am poor, help me to glorify Thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give Thee honour by patience; I have talents, help me to extol Thee by spending them for Thee; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve Thee; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but Thine, and glow with no flame but affection for Thee; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think of Thee and for Thee; Thou has

The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.

Dear church, John the baptist died for exposing the sins of others. Jesus died to actually pay for the sins of others.John was great, but we should not follow his model. Our model is Christ. So lets stop telling the world how bad their sin is and lets start sharing how good the Father has always been.

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

Outstanding success in life, leadership, business, marriage and ministry always come down to a test of whether or not you will make a sacrifice when no one else is watching. The key to our success is what we will do when no one will applaud us or even notice us.

To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

That’s the bittersweet joy of ministry. We see people healed, and then we watch them move on in victory. Sometimes, it means saying goodbye. We must learn to celebrate as our fledgling birds spread their wings and fly into freedom, even if that flight pattern takes them far away from us.

You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can’t take the ministry out of the minister.

Our real problem is not the pervasiveness of the darkness but a failure of the light. Light always dispels darkness. The glorious light of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ is still sufficient and available to those who reject self-reliance and return to His plan for biblical leadership. This return can reignite the radiance of the Gospel in transforming power.

I've got to tell you that my vocation, my true calling, is serving others. Medicine is my avocation; it's part of how I answer my calling, but it's not all of it. I minister to bodies, but I also minister to hearts and souls.

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get "fixed." It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

Second Corinthians speaks concerning the ministry, which is constituted with, and produced and formed by, the experiences of the riches of Christ through sufferings, consuming pressures, and the killing work of the cross. The ministry is not merely a matter of gift. A person may be able to speak fluently and eloquently and give many good illustrations and proverbs, but this is just a gift. What the church, the Body, needs today is the ministry.

Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving of souls in measurable numbers. The local minister was judged either by his charismatic powers or by his ability to prepare his congregation for the preaching of some itinerant ministerial charmer who would really awaken its members. The 'star' system prevailed in religion before it reached the theater. As the evangelical impulse became more widespread and more dominant, the selection and training

I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life.

Helping people to know God and to be obedient to him is perhaps the greatest gift we can bestow. Understood in this way, Christian education can be be one of the most compassionate ministries of the church.

Some contemporary theology has been enamored with the heady idea of an imagined freedom that functions without any law or norm or rule of obligation. The technical name for this idea is antinomianism. This yen for freedoms other than Christ's freedom has compounded the problems in pastoral theology. Pastoral practice has at times been exceedingly ready to be guided by this antinomian tendency in theology that implies: if God loves you no matter what, then your own moral responses to God's absolu

For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.

Reveal God to the people and teach them His ways

Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears

God does not just save you for your personal interest but for you to become a channel for the salvation of others

Don’t wait for people to locate you. Rather, reach out to people and help to bring them to Christ

Locate the problems in people’s lives with the intention of finding a solution

When you provide things for free to meet their needs and help them discover their skills, they automatically become your family

We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God

The needs of the people around you should your utmost priority

The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God

Change the value system of the people you are ministering to

You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to

To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are

Our main mandate in our place of work is to make sure that the people open up their hearts to others

In order to know your ministry, you need to start serving and be under the leadership of someone, who already knows his ministry

We are called to serve God and not to rely on our achievement in ministry

You must please God and not man with your ministry

We must all have a ministry we can function in, no matter how small

What is important to God is that you remain faithful to Him in your ministry

Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church

God will constantly send people to you who need the fruit of your ministry

Love is the easiest way of evangelism

You have to discover the needs of the people you want to minister to

Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives

Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members

You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!

I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the job is that you just can't please everybody all the time, no matter how hard you try. But the greatest honor of the office, from my perspective, is being invited into the lives of people at their very best moments and at their very worst moments.

Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them

A ministry gives us the opportunity to establish roots

Our success in ministry is not to elevate us but to glorify Him who has called and equipped us

Jesus had the ministry of light (knowledge).

The church doesn’t belong to the pastor it belongs to Jesus Christ.

So time continued on slowly and painfully. Perhaps the old analogy of being a record stuck on repeat had become too dated I felt like I’d just gotten an IPod and only could afford one song so that one song played over and over again until I felt as if it was just part of the constant monotony.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

Worship is the launching pad for life.

As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger than the pride in our hearts.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God’s time.

The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, “I am the equipper, not the doer.” If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry.

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God’s anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with ‘it’. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather share it as the source of healing and new life? It is important to realize that you cannot get a Ph.D. in caring, that caring cannot be delegated by specialists, and that therefore nobody can be excused from caring. Still, in a society like ours, we have a strong tendency to refer to specialists. When someone

The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship