Quotes about Ministry

If you're not ministering and using your gifts in the church, then something God wants done is being ignored.

A ministry that doesn't have it simply follows the formula they used the year before and the year before that. People are bored, uninspired, and complacent. When a church doesn't have it, the staff is simply doing a job, drawing a paycheck, passing time. They're territorial. Jealous. Dissatisfied. Discontented. Even bitter.

In that moment, my heavenly Father said, "You are not who others say you are. You are who I say you are. And I say you are called to ministry.

The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to others tirelessly, lovingly, effectively.

Elisha instructed the young man to go back to the place where he last knew he had it. There, at that spot, God gave the young man the tool he needed. Sometimes, Duncan said, we momentarily lose our axheads—our best cutting-edge tool for ministry, which is the clear voice of God. It helps to go back to the place where we last knew we had heard the sharp edge of God's voice.

Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.

Let me see them as thirsty people, I pray, and teach me how best to present the Living Water.

The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The

As Christ's body on earth we are compelled to move, as he did, toward those who hurt. That has been God's consistent movement in all history.

Ministry is when the people who hear you, don't want more of you; they want more of Him because of what you've said. When you point them to God's fire instead of trying to get attention for yourself-that's ministry.

Ministry is when you point out Jesus - nothing more and nothing less.

Through the wise, skillful words of this author, God was telling me that effective ministry could never be measured by the size of an audience, by the number of books I'd written, by the acclaim of the crowds, but only by the lives being changed as the Spirit of God rested upon me.