Quotes About Ministry

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

The best and the most talented in the pastoral ministry and in denominational hierarchies harm themselves and harm the church most through their unrestrained ego and unwillingness to step off the high places. Sexual sin gets the press, but ego sin kills the church.

The pastoral ministry cannot be employer-driven, trend-driven or task-driven. Pastoral ministry must be following Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ called me to this work, and following him must be integral to realizing his calling.

thirty-three years as the Mortal Messiah.

Each of us has a certain ministry to perform, and we will each have to answer to God for what we have done with that gift. What have you done with the talents God has given you?

The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God.

We can not effectively serve God without the Holy Spirit.

The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it's a place to preach the word of God.

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job.

If you reach the people nobody wants, God will give you the people everybody wants.

Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry.

I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.