Quotes About Ministry

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:21-22] says that God has anointed us, has sealed us, and has given us the pledge, the foretaste, of the Spirit. If we are going to minister something of Christ to others, we have to experience Christ by the working of the cross, and the working of the cross is for the anointing, the sealing, and the pledge of the Spirit.

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.

No one should destroy the gracious work of Christ on the saints. No one should destroy those on whom we have been working for their building up.

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

But once a church reaches a certain size, it stabilizes. The building gets finished, cash flow firms up, and a core membership is in place. So the congregation makes a subtle shift from offense to defense. The focus changes from fishing for men to creating a comfortable aquarium for the saints.

Why are churches so unproductive? They try to be all things to all people. They can't say no. They do too much and end up doing a lot of things poorly. They keep adding ministry programs but never prune the ineffective ones. But parachurch organizations do one thing—such as hunger relief, housing for the poor, vaccinations, or Bible translation—and do it very well. Productivity fires the imaginations of men.

Here's a mind bender: What if we canceled the children's ministry and put that effort into building up the men of the church? I firmly believe that such an approach would, in the long run, win more youth to Christ. It would also save more marriages and produce happier women. Children's ministry and youth ministry are good things—but spiritually healthy male role models are the best thing.

Many have called men back to church. Now it's time to call the church back to men.

let's say, fairly limited in their skills. Joel Osteen. Kenneth Copeland. Paula White. I mean, really.

career ladders in the religion business.

Most churches are filled with people who love Jesus and are involved in every way that they feel capable. In reality, they are waiting for someone to invest in them for gospel work.

Most people have no idea how to pray for you. If you want them to pray something more than, "Be with [fill in the blank] as she works with lost people in [fill in the blank]," then you need to teach them how to pray. Teaching them how to pray effectively is your responsibility.

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.