Quotes About Ministry

But sometimes, when the heat of the day is over, if I see flowers and grasses athirst, I am taken with pity for them. If no other be there to minister to them I will take a great watering-can in my own hands and give them water in their need. That is no gardening; it is a godlike charity, a sacramental act of mercy.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher. 

He is there to present the gospel of God.

We somehow have the idea that a person called to the ministry is called to be different and above other people. But according to Jesus Christ, he is called to be a 'doormat' for others--called to be their spiritual leader, but never their superior.

A Christian servant is one who perpetually looks into the face of God and then goes forth to talk to others. The ministry of Christ is characterized by an abiding glory of which the servant is totally unaware—". . . Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him" (Exodus 34:29).

Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

The thing that approaches the very limits of His power is the very thing we as disciples of Jesus ought to believe He will do. We impoverish and weaken His ministry in us the moment we forget He is almighty. The impoverishment is in us, not in Him. We will come to Jesus for Him to be our comforter or our sympathizer, but we refrain from approaching Him as our Almighty God.

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.

As a saved soul, the real business of your life is intercessory prayer. Whatever circumstances God may place you in, always pray immediately that His atonement may be recognized and as fully understood in the lives of others as it has been in yours. Pray for your friends now, and pray for those with whom you come in contact now.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the gospel of God.

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others lives for it.

Even in preaching and ministering salvation to others, you must understand that the Gospel that we've been given and charged to take to the nations of the world, is a Gospel that can't be humanly explained and accepted. Consequently, we need the Holy Spirit to minister through us, and to help bring the understanding of the message to those to whom we minister.

Francis Schaeffer wrote, "A ministry such as teaching the Bible in a college is no higher calling intrinsically than being a businessman or doing something else.

We should regard work not just as a platform for ministry—work is ministry, and we are stewards put in charge until Jesus comes back, a fifth column who infiltrate a world stained by sin, acting as salt that preserves the way of Christ and light that leads broken people out of darkness.

Ministering to the Lord in private is the foundation and prerequisite for leading in the public meeting.

the past few years I have approached music ministry with the mind-set of a pastor first, and a musician second.

In spite of the desire for relational connectivity, the greatest ministry challenge facing these younger Christians is arguably long-term commitment. In their fast-moving, ever-changing world, concentration on any one thing for more than three or six months is very challenging. Going on a short-term mission trip to rescue people from human trafficking is one thing; investing years or decades in fighting unjust legal systems is another.

Our conversation revealed the differences between their paradigm and mine. They were sent by a U.S.-based ministry that defined "gospel-preaching churches" as non-Pentecostal and noncharismatic, male-led, emotionally quiet, hymn-singing and (implicitly) led by white missionaries. My paradigm was more along the lines of "go where God is going.

When Jesus Christ started His public ministry, the very first work accomplished by Him was the work of taking-on all our sins by receiving baptism in the Jordan River.

This is why Jesus Christ, as He went about His ministry for 3 years, meant as an example when He by seeing an adulterous woman said, "Even I do not condemn you. Even I cannot pass judgment on you. I must receive your judgment. I must die on the Cross in your place.

The Bible clearly writes and bears witness about John the Baptist of this fact.

and "the Elijah who is to come"(Matthew 11:11-14). What then is the chief role that

Then, why so many suffered destruction by not having faith in this righteous ministry? The harlots and the tax collectors were the typical people who committed many sins.