Quotes About Ministry

I believe it was Peter Wagner who said a church that attempts to reach everyone in general will likely reach no one in particular.

I'm interested in planting church-planting churches.

Good assessment is built on what I refer to as the 3Ds. The first D stands for design or divine design. The second D is for direction or divine direction, and the third for development. I believe this is the proper order and approach to determine what God would have us do in terms of ministry.

First, the potential church planter must discover his divine design,

a spiritual gift as a unique, God-given ability for service.

But this could be interpreted primarily in terms of the ministry of word and sacrament, in accordance with the previous models of the Church, rather than in terms of caritative service.

When I meet pastors, I'm not like, 'Hey, you should go out there and be a rapper.' Because for so many of us, I think it would just pull us away from our congregations too much to be able to serve them like we should.

I reached a point where - I have a real heart and concern for families and for youth, and the more I became involved in working through a ministry, the more I realized how powerful the entertainment industry was and how irresponsible it was.

The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.

Ministry burnout is a real problem because it's never-ending.

The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

God's love enables us to minister to others beyond what we feel capable of doing. — Kathleen Kohler —

Never underestimate the value of the ministry you have in the place where God has called you—even if it's "only" among your family and friends. — Jenni Davenport

Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. —3 John 1:5

What's natural eventually turns inward to bring stability, but then the church becomes so stable that no one wants to grow anymore. People begin to guard the structure and programs already in place, so it is difficult to close out an older ministry, let alone start a new one.

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like feeling obligated to look serious, and he centers his doubts on what people expect of a clergyman.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

I encounter thousands of people, millions of people, over the course of ministry, but there's been a handful of people that I knew was like, this was direct assignment.

Daniel Kolenda is an outstanding preacher with a message of salvation. He knows how to throw the net out, and he knows how to pull it back in. Many people are coming to salvation as a result of it.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed.