Quotes About Ministry

men have never seemed to object to women going off to difficult missionary assignments in the far corners of the earth. The matter of women preachers became a problem only when women wanted to be pastors back home, in the sometimes affluent neighborhoods that typically had churches pastored by men.

I felt responsible to use my gifts, but in future churches, that pointed in the direction of children's or music ministry. But, like many women in the church whom I knew, I felt neither a call nor a predisposition to children or song.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God... I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

Good," Pop slapped his thighs and pushed to his feet. "Number one job of a preacher. Know the Word. Live it, pray it, sing it.

We're each a part of the body of Christ—some of us are eyes with the gift of vision, others are feet with the ability to mobilize into action. The eyes can't move without the feet. The feet don't know where to head without the eyes. We're each gifted to meet the others' needs.

On 3 March, after Sikh and Hindu MLAs refused to support an alternative League ministry, which therefore could not be formed, Master Tara Singh unsheathed his sword on the steps of the Punjab legislature building in Lahore and said that Sikhs would not live under Muslim rule nor allow Pakistan to emerge.

The Great Commandment—to love—must come before the Great Commission—to do. "I've stepped back from the 'work' of ministry, and now I just play with my Daddy. The wonderful thing is that I'm seeing more fruit than ever! God is love. When His love is released, healing comes—healing of every

God comforts us to make us comforters, not to make us comfortable.

I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.

I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.

I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.

I don't take any money from my ministry. I'm not on salary. My husband supports me.

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

Mark's focus is kept squarely on Jesus's ministry; he is uninterested either in Jesus's birth or, perhaps surprisingly, in Jesus's resurrection, as he writes nothing at all about either event.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.