Quotes about Ministry

Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people—separated from the moral evils of the world.

Then I thought about my boyhood dreams. Instead of bat in hand at home plate, I had what I now know is a much greater privilege: to stand behind a pulpit, with Bible in hand, immersed in the power of the Holy Spirit.

God doesn't comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.

Of one thing we can be sure: angels never draw attention to themselves but ascribe glory to God and press His message upon the hearers as a delivering and sustaining word of the highest order.

Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.

God isn't finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.

The empire of angels is as vast as God's creation. If you believe the Bible, you will believe in their ministry.

When the church lives out its mission, it will be founded on the gospel, evidence true discipleship, positively impact society, and become the body of Christ in whatever cultural context it develops. Ministry will be done. Jesus will be worshiped as supreme above all else.

When we send the whole church to build the church (instead of leaving it to the religious professionals), God's power is unleashed in full force.

The ministry was the profession that suffered most—and still suffers, though there has been great improvement—on account of not only ignorant but in many cases immoral men who claimed that they were "called to preach.

A minister is simply a sent one. You might only be sent across the street, but it does not matter. To God, whether it is to one or the masses, it is the same—it is love incarnate.