Quotes About Ministry

We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.

All Believers are Priests

When you understand this—and you should because "what hast thou that thou didst not receive?"—you will not flatter yourself on the one hand and on the other hand you will not carry yourself with the thought of resigning from the ministry when you are insulted, reproached, or persecuted.

We have come to understand why it is so necessary to repeat the admonition of this verse. When Satan cannot suppress the preaching of the Gospel by force he tries to accomplish his purpose by striking the ministers of the Gospel with poverty. He curtails their income to such an extent that they are forced out of the ministry because they cannot live by the Gospel. Without ministers to proclaim the Word of God the people go wild like savage beasts.

How much more properly did the apostles call themselves servants of the present Christ and not vicars of an absent Christ.

The sin and wrath which Moses arouses through his ministry that Prophet cancels through righteousness and grace by His ministry.

A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical because it is the lay members of the church who have the greatest contact with those who are outside of the normal structures of church life. In such a situation the task of clergy is not so much to engage in mission themselves, as to support the laity in their mission.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love.

According to St. Paul women are not allowed to be public teachers in the church."

Christ's disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such.

The office of the ministry is a divine institution, which does not lie open in common to all, but is confined to those only whom God has qualified for it and called to it: even reason itself directs us to put a difference between the teachers and the taught (for, if all were teachers, there would be none to be taught), and the scriptures sufficiently declare that it is the will of God we should do so.

All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;

those that do so, and continue labouring in the word and doctrine, are to be accounted worthy of double honour, double to that of the Old-Testament priests.

is a great vexation to the spirits of good ministers to see people deaf to all the fair warnings given them, and running headlong upon ruin, notwithstanding all the kind methods taken to prevent it.

Those whom God employs to speak for him ought to depend upon him for instructions, and it shall be given them what they shall speak

I began my ministry with some zeal, endeavouring to improve the lives of my flock by launching a little campaign to have the alehouse open only three days in the week instead of seven, and offering--as a nobler recompense--two extra church services. Sadly this little initiative was answered, in certain quarters, with something like hostility.

How come no one idolizes or praises the missionaries who give up everything and live in poverty, endangering their lives and their families with every danger that the American dream has almost completely eliminated? How come no one lifts up and exalts the ghetto and prison ministers and preachers? Because we are taught early on 1) that comfort is our goal and security and 2) that we should always seek for a lot of people to like us.

And, in a larger sense, Graham was soon vindicated. Within just a few months, he received invitations to preach in the nations that were then known as Czechoslovakia and East Germany - trips that would turn out to be genuine crusades in countries desperate for Christian ministry. It had not been easy to watch, but Graham had wedged his foot in the door. And he would help kick it wide open over the next few years. p. 275

Cornelius Fudge

Officer Of The Ministry Of Magic (Omm)

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.

Did persistent ministerial ideation constitute a call to the ministry? For more literal religious people, a call was God tapping your shoulder, or saying your name in the wind, or ordering you around in dreams the way Yahweh harassed the prophets. In our progressive, rational, scientifically minded denomination, a call isn't—or shouldn't be—so supernatural.

Ministry does involve a lot of writing," said Sparlo. "And I love the sermon," I blurted. I knew, I went on, that there was much more to church than preaching. The more involved I'd been over the past two years, the greater my interest in church administration, governance, and polity. I didn't know if this interest constituted a call, I said, but I'd been having ministerial ideation for well over a year.

Sparlo here. I read through your folder. And, Dana, you are a very frank and funny and fearless writer. I admire your audaciousness. You've inspired me to be more audacious myself." Tears filled my eyes. "I hope you do go into ministry," he went on. "We'd be lucky to have you in our ranks.