Quotes About Ministry

People move from church to church as if the churches in their community are nothing more than ecclesiastical department stores. They're shopping for just the right preacher, women's ministry, youth ministry, or worship style. These Christians' relationship to the church mirrors my relationship to Macy's.

This is the upside-down world of ministry calling. The pathway to freedom is servanthood, the pathway to greatness is slavery, and the pathway to deep and lasting joy—joy that people and circumstance cannot take away—is denying yourself

The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that he is using for his purpose.

When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule.

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

Healthy ministry communities, which leave a legacy of long-term gospel productivity, have longevity and fruit because they are, at their core, communities of grace. Rather than achievement forming how the leadership community forms itself and operates, the gospel does.

solo cuando Su trono es más importante que el tuyo que vas a encontrar gozo en la difícil y humillante tarea del ministerio evangélico. Y Su gracia no se va a rendir hasta que nuestros corazones hayan sido completamente cautivados por Su gloria. Ahora bien, ¡ésa es una buena noticia!

She concentrated on the former East Germany, stronghold of the infamous secret police, the Stasi (the Ministry for State Security).

It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activities toward those both within and without the Christian culture, to consider pagans, humanists, and Jews as members of the latent Spiritual Community and not as complete strangers who are invited into the Spiritual Community from outside. This insight serves as a powerful weapon against ecclesiastical and hierarchical arrogance.

Estou cada vez mais convencido de que o que dá ao ministério as suas motivações, perseverança, humildade, alegria, amabilidade, paixão e graça é a vida devocional daquele que está exercendo o ministério.

é absolutamente vital lembrar que o ministério do pastor não é estruturado apenas por seu conhecimento, experiência e habilidade. Ele sempre é estruturado também pela verdadeira condição do seu coração. Na verdade, se o seu coração não estiver no lugar correto, todo o conhecimento e habilidade podem funcionar para torná-lo perigoso.

Metternich employed two of his favorite devices in his attempt to meet the danger of anarchy and revolution toward which he insisted the current ministry was leading France. Through private correspondence with Decazes, he tried to convince the supple French premier that unless France altered her press and election laws in a conservative direction and otherwise imitated the policies of the Carlsbad decrees, the monarchy of Louis XVIII was doomed.

True Gospel ministry is not a party, but a battle for souls.

One in five American children are living in poverty, and yet, according to the Barna Research Group, 'half of all adults did nothing at all in the past year to help a poor person' and 'few churches have a serious ministry to the poor.' With such crying needs and such self-absorption among God's people, surely things have never been worse.

Lord, save the Church from desiring to have pews, choirs, organs, or instrumental music, and a congregational ministry, like other heathen Churches around them!

They never understood his ministry, the meaning of his life: that he had come to call, not sinners, but the righteous to repentance

Nevertheless, they were forbidden to buy land from non-Mennonites, except by special permission of the war ministry, since military obligations were based on land ownership.

“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.

Aaron must wear the robe whenever he ministers, and its sound will be heard when he enters or exits the sanctuary before the LORD, so that he will not die.

Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants.

The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must wear them for seven days.

and the woven garments for ministering in the holy place—both the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.”

From the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn they made specially woven garments for ministry in the sanctuary, as well as the holy garments for Aaron, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

alternating the bells and pomegranates around the lower hem of the robe to be worn for ministry, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.