Quotes About Ministry

If I flew commercial, I'd have to stop 65% of what I'm doing.

The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus.

In the Church, however, true ordination does not precede ministry; it follows it. Only after obviously functioning in certain areas of spiritual influence and ministry, by the enablement of the Holy Spirit, is a person truly ordained by God to do the work of a ministry. A man is not ordained by man so that he can function. Instead, he is recognized by man because he has already been spiritually ordained by God, and has already been functioning in the ministry that God has given to him!

Grace plus ministry equals influence. Influence is most effective when it is within the limits God has given us. Even if that influence looks lesser to others, it is really greater because it is the measure of influence we are supposed to have. Greatness is a direct result of our faithfulness to our divine assignments.

Church staff creep silently as part of their job, you don't notice them.

Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

May those who enjoy the faithful ministry of the Word feel exceedingly thankful for it. There are few blessings on Earth greater for a believer; and yet the Lord is frequently obliged to teach us the value of this blessing by depriving us of it for a season.

I am so thankful to get to still be serving the Lord through music.

If we are going to be for the world as Christ meant for us to be, we are going to have to spend more time away from the world, in deep prayer and substantial spiritual training—just as Jesus retreated to the desert to pray before ministering to the people. We cannot give the world what we do not have.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

Christ and His disciples in the New Testament treat sickness just like they do demons.

I didn't believe he would, but I refused to bet, because I wanted to tell Mrs. Allan all about everything, and I felt sure it wouldn't do to tell her that. It's always wrong to do anything you can't tell the minister's wife.

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

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

It is one thing for a minister to be an advocate and supporter of missions: it is another and very different thing for him to understand that they are the chief end of the Church, and therefore the chief end for which his congregation exists. It is only when this truth masters him in its spiritual power, that he will be able to give the subject of missions its true place in his ministry.

Blessed is the man who has made that "I have nothing" the motto of his ministry.

Let us each find our what our work is and which souls are entrusted to our special prayers.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To

Him?' Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray.

There is great need for the preaching of love. God sometimes allows bitterness to arise between Christians, that they may view the terrible power of sin in their hearts and shrink back at the sight. How greatly a minister and his people should feel the importance of Christ's command to love one another. A life of great holiness will result, if we only but love each other as Christ loves us.