Quotes about Ministries

From the Greek apostolos meaning "one who is sent out." Apostles are visionary and pioneering, always pushing into new territory. They like to establish new churches, ministries, non-profits, Kingdom-minded businesses or initiatives.

There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

Ministries that have it always have a clear vision

We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.

The end product of biblical Christianity is a person—not a book, not a building, not a set of principles or a system of ethics—but one person in two natures (divine/human) with four ministries (prophet/priest/king/sage) and four biographies (the Gospels). But those four biographies don't tell the whole story. Every bit of Scripture is part of the same great story of that one person and that one story's plotline of creation, revelation, redemption, and consummation.

We're not a Church of preservation but rather a Church of proclamation. To achieve this end, we must be open to significant, if not revolutionary, changes in how the Archdiocese with its parishes and ministries is organized, how it's resourced, how it's staffed.

Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.

I felt other Christian charities and ministries of compassion were wrong in showing the love of Christ. No, many were doing a wonderful job. But I felt the local church should be the center for outreach, and we needed to bring the balance back.

I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

We must realize that the ministries and gifts of the Spirit are for everyday life, not just meetings.

There is something shut up in you, something big that's about to be released—dreams, books, movies, inventions, businesses, ministries, potential that you haven't tapped into, gifts and talents that you hadn't known were there. You haven't seen them yet because it hasn't been the right time, but your season is coming. The good break, the promotion, the opportunity—it's on the way.

As a child, Andrew Murray's "world" spanned two continents, Africa and Europe; but ultimately his preaching, teaching, and writing fueled spiritual awakening and revival with a worldwide impact. Andrew Murray was born in 1828 in South Africa, into a Dutch Reformed parsonage. At age ten he and a brother sailed to Scotland for schooling and later to Holland for theological studies, before returning ten years later to South Africa for pastoral ministries of their own.