373 Quotes About Ministry

The frenzy with which much of the church busies herself with things peripheral to the kingdom in a frantic attempt by her own ingenuity and effort to make God’s name holy or make his kingdom come is a sign that something is radically wrong. The church has lost connection with Christ, her living head; she has listened to the siren calls of this world; she has succumbed to the prevailing culture instead of what Christ Jesus created her to be.

Even when ministry is hard, it's more fun than any other job I can imagine. Where else can you preach, teach, meet with a lead abatement specialist, and get arrested for civil disobedience all in the same week?

Keep your minister’s table well provided, and you shall be fed with the finest of the wheat; see that his earthly cares do not press on him painfully, and your own hearts’ burdens will be lifted by his heavenly teachings; supply him with this world’s needful comforts, and he will not fail to bring you solace and consolation in the time of your extremity. If he has sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if he shall reap your carnal things?

The ultimate will of RESPECT is a requirement for all, not according to the MANTLE that one hold. Acknowledging God in those that are treading as we cross paths

A fruitful ministry will not abandon the gospel by overcontextualizing to its place and culture, nor will it privatize the gospel by undercontextualizing to his place and culture.

Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, "Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living.

To claim Jesus as Lord is to say that his sovereignty extends to the economic, the political, the social, the cultural, the aesthetic, the ecological, the personal, and the communal arenas. Nothing is excluded from his sovereignty. And likewise nothing is excluded fro the church's ministry of reconciliation.

If you can't pick the fruit,don't bruise it.

If you are forcing it, you are doing it wrong