Quotes About Ministry

No young believer should ever rise quickly in the ministry.

God's vision for your ministry, like the one He prepares for a church, will cause you to grow by demanding that you change, sharpen your skills and participate in situations in which your only hope of success is enabling His Spirit to guide you and empower you.

Notice that the unchurched show little interest in attending a church known for the quality of its worship music or even the quality of its sermons. Millions of churchless adults are very sensitive to the balance between teaching and street-level ministry; they fear getting connected to a congregation that is all talk and no action.

Are you satisfied with the nature of your church today but simply want your church to be bigger?

Although they are good people and have been called to ministry, most senior pastors do not have an understanding of God's vision for the ministries they are trying to lead—and, consequently, most churches have little impact in their community or in the lives of their congregants.

The differences between John and the Synoptics must not be glossed over. These differences in theology are corollaries to differences in matters of introduction. There is a difference in the locale of Jesus' ministry. In the Synoptics, with the exception of the last week, Jesus' ministry is largely devoted to Galilee; while in John his ministry centers around several visits to Jerusalem.

Evangelists are preachers who carry on the missionary task of preaching the gospel but without the authority of the apostles. The term denotes a function rather than an office.

It should be remembered that while the Baptist's ministry in the Synoptics has several points of contact with contemporary eschatological and apocalyptic thought, it has even more striking elements of divergence. "The essential mystery of prophetic insight and divine inspiration" cannot be explained by the limitations of a naturalistic methodology.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

It takes wisdom and discernment to minister to people in need. We must look beyond the apparent and seek to meet the needs of the whole person.

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

But teaching VBS may actually be a more painful way to my grave.

We're in soul business here.

Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.

Culling staff and methods from SIS's D section (D for destruction) and the Army's similar MI (Military Intelligence) unit, its masterminds, who started the organization from three rooms at St. Ermin's Hotel, referred to themselves as the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise. Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.

ask yourself, Who's getting the glory in this ministry? You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.

Sometime in my ministry, I am going to gather up enough courage to have a testimony time where the only thing we'll share is our failures.

Are they by any chance a quiverfull ministry?" Pete's lips thin. "Yes." The word "quiverfull" sets my alarm bells ringing, and clearly upsets Mo. It goes back to Psalm 127, which refers to having many children as having a full quiver. They're arrows for the Lord, and a number of evangelical churches have adopted the theory that you can never have too much ammunition.

Ras is a big fan of Noam Chomsky; calling it the Propaganda Ministry keeps things honest, he says. Like having a Ministry of War rather than a Department of Defense, or Counting Other People's Murdered Children instead of talking about Collateral Damage.

I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.

But as I'd learned my new trade at a deeper level, I'd discovered that I had not escaped the call to ministry as cleanly as I might have thought. I had not only followed my mother into the classroom but my father into the pulpit, never mind that I preached on weekdays instead of Sundays. There I was, pacing the lecture hall with chalk dust on my pants, day after day.

Se você é um pastor e está sob a unção de Deus, prega melhor. Mas debaixo da glória de Deus, tropeça, gagueja, não consegue fazer nada. (...) Por quê? Porque Deus declarou que carne nenhuma vai se gloriar em Sua presença.

Many men have come to view the church for its convenience—help me, bless me, serve me, preach to me, sing to me, pray for me, but don't expect me to be a vehicle to minister to anyone else or join with you to impact the world.