Quotes About Ministry

Jesús no comenzó a predicar el reino de los cielos hasta después de haber recibido la plenitud del Espíritu Santo. Solo entonces pudo llevar a cabo su ministerio en tres años y medio con gran poder y autoridad. Al darnos cuenta de esto, ¿cómo nos atrevemos a pensar que nosotros seríamos capaces de realizar la obra de Dios solo con poder y sabiduría humanos?

Go into all the world and preach the gospel.' " Martha nodded slowly. "So the challenge is to do that without getting in the way of the message." Alban added, "He must increase. I must decrease.

Being in the Word is Far More Important than Being in a Ministry...If You Are in a Ministry Without Being in the Word, You have Lost it.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

Missionary work in a place where Christ has never been named is sometimes less arduous than in places where, though named, He has not been honored by lives of holy obedience.

Understandably, they, with others who knew Jim well, wondered if perhaps his ministry might not be more effective in the United States, where so many know so little of the Bible's real message. He replied: 'I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.

Understandably, they, with others who knew Jim well, wondered if perhaps his ministry might not be more effective in the United States, where so many know so little of the Bible's real message. He replied: "I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.

God is immutable—He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

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

The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.

Like a fountain of refreshing water in the dusty, dry desert streets, a heart God fills with His love ministers life and health.

As the heart and health of the leader goes, so goes the ministry.

Much of what you learn through times of adversity will become lifelong wisdom, and these truths will sustain you throughout your ministry.

if we bow down before the truth of Christ's prophetic ministry and then stand up on our feet ready to serve the Lord, something will happen.

I believe student ministry needs reformation, not annihilation. I also believe the system currently in operation in many churches — more pizza parties than theological passion and more games than gospel — must be changed.

We need student pastors and national and parachurch leaders who are better at theology than at new ideas.

More seeds of ministry are sown in youth between the ages of twelve and eighteen, more relationships forged that affect their future, more choices made with long-term implications, than arguably any other period in life.'I'hese are the years when young adults begin to think about issues that will influence the rest of their lives.

How many students are sharing their faith? How many are volunteering at the school? How are students in your ministry cultivating relationships with unchurched youth? How are their families doing? How are they living for Christ after leaving the student ministry?

When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.

I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.

The popularity's got its pluses and minuses, and there are many days that I would rather just be a Christian and not known at all, but that's not what God has called me to do.