Quotes About Ministry

The other reason is that Acts links the work of the Holy Spirit more with the life, character, and personal ministry of believers than with deeds such as signs and wonders.

God's ways with us are all designed to establish in us this other principle, namely, that our work for Him springs out of our ministering to Him. I do not mean that we are going to do nothing; but the first thing for us must be the Lord Himself, not His work.

Predicar la Cruz es relativamente fácil, pero ser una persona crucificada que predica la Cruz no es tan fácil.

Commenting on Rom 9:1-5] The Christian church would never lack converts if all its members or even its ministers felt for their friends and fellow countrymen the deep concern expressed by the apostle Paul for his kinsmen the Jews.

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Your goal is to wash the minds of your people in the Word so that Christ is formed in them. That's biblical preaching.

That's what it means to be a servant of Christ. You get your hands dirty among his earthly-and earthy-people. But you do it because you have life in your hands to give them. pg 25

In another city. In another place. Luk would have had to submit his plans for approval. Months would have been lost. Waiting. The Ministry in Charge. Public safety and all that. But the law is for people who don't know each other. We're all family here.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

This power God has for us as we Christians in the ministerial, theological, psychological, psychiatric, medical, therapeutic, and counseling fields regain, first of all, an incarnational understanding of Christian reality, and then come together in unity, learn from one another, and collaborate with the God who is with us. If and when we get our act together, the world will once again, in regard to the soul of man, have everything to learn from us.

Os puritanos pensavam que o futuro da igreja repousava num clero distinguido... por um novo fervor, um equipamento intelectual superior, um poder de comunicar... O principal propósito do novo clérigo era comunicar zelo aos leigos, tornando-os capazes de unirem-se para selecionar seus próprios ministros, examinar suas próprias vidas espirituais, dirigir orações em família, ler livros santos e tomar parte na administração eclesiástica.[

God says we are of worth. Satan tries to convince us wer are mere trash. If he can accomplish that, then we give up. We do no even try to fullfill our God-given ministry to others.

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

In my ministry, I've been fortunate to privately advise many national leaders, celebrities and people of unusual influence.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

Many people have come to Christ as a result of my participation in presenting the Gospel to them. It's all the work of the Holy Spirit.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.