Quotes About Ministry

The global body of Christ is not being trained, equipped, and reaching the fullness of the knowledge of the Son of God because they are only being exposed to the ministry of one man on a consistent basis.

Mario Murillo, International Speaker and Author of Critical Mass and Vessels of Fire and Glory. To follow and subscribe to Mario's ministry, please visit MarioMurillo.org.

No life is messier than one in ministry

The ministry's array of "secret transmitters," masquerading as English radio stations but based in Germany, were now to be deployed, "to arouse alarm and fear among the British people." They were to take pains to disguise their German origins, even to the point of starting broadcasts with criticism of the Nazi Party, and fill their reports

diagnosis is central to our homiletical task.

Protocols are ideals. They're things we aspire to." I throw in an analogy that Jillian gave me when I explained the situation. "They're not enchanted proclamations from the Ministry of Magic that can't be broken. We break them all the time. I'm sure there's some protocol here that says I shouldn't interrupt you, but here I am, interrupting you.

Without incarnation the Word would not have become flesh, and Jesus would not have existed; without ascension our humanity would not have entered into communion with the Father, and Jesus would have no continuing ministry. With the incarnation, God made his "home" in our human place; with the ascension, Jesus, the human one, has made his "home" in God's place, from whence in the Spirit he continues to exercise his mission from the Father.

Preachers' kids who gravitate toward ministry are commodities. I hire all I can. We see church differently than everybody else.

the minute you decide to get back in the business the church was commissioned for in the first place, you will pray for boldness.

Practical Teaching Private Disciplines Personal Ministry Providential Relationships Pivotal Circumstances

There is a direct correlation between a person's private devotional life and his or her personal faith. And regardless of how long you've been in ministry, this is something you can't afford to lose sight of. When God speaks to us personally through his Word or answers a specific prayer, our faith is strengthened.

Ministry makes people's faith bigger. If you want to increase someone's confidence in God, put him in a ministry position before he feels fully equipped.

Remember that I have been a legalist. We are the ones who throw stones. We are quick to judge without knowledge. We feed rumors and incline our heads to hear more. We label the messy people and gossip about the sinners and shake our heads in disgust. And when you have been a legalist in ministry, it's not pretty. And it's not ministry. And it couldn't possibly be what the Jesus had in mind when He said, "Go and teach them about me.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.

I do see the ministry of Human Resources Development through the prism of gender. I see it through the prism of capabilities.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.