Quotes about Service

Developing leaders is not just downloading theological knowledge and ministry skill, but calling people to lead with hearts captured by the awe of God.

Grace doesn't make it okay for you to live for you. No, grace frees you to experience the joy of living for One greater than you.

The church is in desperate need of a leadership community whose function is not just structured to achieve with efficiency but is more deeply shaped by the comforts and calls of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.

A life of vibrant ministry is not the result of ministry training, but the result of a deep conviction that God is who he has said he is and is doing all that he promised to do. Ministry always flows from a thankful heart. 3.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

God is not satisfied with you being a witness to his work of grace. He's called you to be an instrument of that grace to others.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

You were put here for the purpose of the glory of another. This is not a lifestyle option; it is in the very nature of your humanity. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

We are called to be ambassadors of Christ. To be the look on his face, the touch of his hand, and the tone of his voice.