102 Quotes About Pastors

When you cant decipher the seasons, you are unable to know your destiny.

Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.

I'm surprisingly unconcerned with what people in my church believe. Belief is going to be influenced by all sorts of things that I have nothing to do with, so I don't feel responsible for that. I'm responsible for what they hear — and hearing the gospel, the good news about who God is, slowly forms us over time.

At the heart of it, preaching is the telling and retelling of Christ's story and our stories from creation to parousia. It is the remembering of the stories with a special kind of remembrance of which the Bible speaks (Old Testament zakar, New Testament anamnesis), a remembrance that does not merely call to mind the thing remembered, but that makes it real, present, potent, and demanding here and now.

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ.

Nous sommes des chrétiens faibles simplement parce que nous avons refusé d'être des serviteurs de Christ

Impamvu turi abakristo b'intege nke ni uko tutari imbata nyazo za Kristo

I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to preach redemption to a packed chapel full of sinners.

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.