Quotes About Ministry

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

God sees the workplace of some people as a mission field, where they are to fulfill their calling

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

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

I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.

You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically how could I not?

God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

If God is going to use us for His honor and glory, if His power is going to rest upon us, if He is going to bless our soul-winning ministry, then our lives must be places absolutely at His disposal.

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Do you want to become a true messenger of the Lord with fire burning in your bones? Then have the Man of fire dwelling in your heart. Abandon any attempts to build your own kingdom or ministry. Forget about building your own empire; build His instead. Worship God passionately. Consecrate yourself to Him to be His holy dwelling place.

long; team ministry is the higher pathway. Are you in this for the long haul or just the short run? To judge a city or build one up?

In the midst of all this, he gives us a revolutionary concept concerning the central issue of what authentic prophetic ministry is all about: Worship God! Worship God, and you will be walking in the opposite spirit from that of this world. And as you worship God, someone—the great Someone—will inhabit your praises,

team—the "prophetic presbytery" (see 1 Tim. 4:14).

What is your hope,' said Paul, 'for any ministry you may undertake?' 'To help people love God so they can learn to love themselves and each other.