373 Quotes About Ministry

When you lose something and God allows that to happen, it simply means He wants to give you something much better.

If you encourage love to grow, then it will protect you from all kinds of internal problems

In order to be successful in a ministry, you need wisdom, the wisdom of God.

The most important task that every pastor has is to get all his church members involved in some kind of ministry. That should be one of his main priorities. 3

The ministry of a pastor is not a ministry you should ever carry on your own shoulders. It has to be put into the temple of the Lord, who Himself is our Sabbath.

Discouragement comes when the things you expected to see in your ministry don’t happen

It took me a long time to understand that although everyone needs to be loved, I cannot be the source of that gift to everyone who asks me for it. There are some relationships which I am capable of love and others in which I am not. To pretend otherwise, to put out promissory notes I am unable to honor, is to damage my own integrity and that of the person in need - all in the name of love.

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the way of Jesus.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.