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My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.
Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.
You must please God and not man with your ministry
God doesn't call you to be a minister, who worries, suffers and weeps. He calls you to accomplish whatever He's called you to by His grace, with thanksgiving.
Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled
Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.
What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them - asking no questions - no qualifications or conditions required?
We must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic.
I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.
You must know what God is expecting from you in the ministry that He has entrusted to you
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.
Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.
It's not just our job to minister to other peoples' needs. We also have to minister to their potential.
Before we can minister to others, we must permit God to minister to us.
Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.
...you don't need a calling to minister love...
No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry
The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.
Be faithful to God in your small ministry and He will exalt you
The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.
Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.
I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.
The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.
Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.
The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
We must all have a ministry we can function in, no matter how small
If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.
Ministering to the Lord in private is the foundation and prerequisite for leading in the public meeting.
The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!
We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well
It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.
Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros
There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.
Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set.
Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
If I confuse my ministerial duties with time spent alone with God, I can draw just enough spiritual nutrients from my job to make it through another day but not enough to sustain a life infused with the power and presence of Jesus.
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.
When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God.
Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.
There is only one thing that can guarantee our having a long term ministry - that is the ability to cut ourselves off from all unnecessary hustle and bustle and outside pressure and to unite our spirits with Him, with the Lord who loves us and delights to bless us.
That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.
Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church
In order to be successful in a ministry, you need wisdom, the wisdom of God.
Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
We're all here to be available channels for the love that heals all things. A job takes a form, but our ministry is content. Even
The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling
Ministry's not an option for a Christian; it's a privilege.
To serve does not mean just to attend church services
All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.
Serve God and get grace to serve people
As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.
All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed.
I want to knock on people's doors and preach. But I also meet a lot of people on planes and in restaurants, and you can preach with them or place some literature with them.
The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.
When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life,
If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord's example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.
We are called to serve God and not to rely on our achievement in ministry
Prepare yourself for your future ministry which God has determined for you
Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.
When someone has learned to minister supernaturally, he will always be abiding in joy, in peace and in rest; he will live righteously, because he knows that the Lord is the One who builds all things, and not man.
When you become ministers, teach your people how to think independently without relying on you for instructions. Don't be a leader who tries to control people. Do not limit your people, but provide a creative environment for them to take the initiative
If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!
The purpose of the church is outreach
Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.
Be an evangelist with your excellence.
Our ministries exist not simply for the purpose of helping people live well now; our ministries, like our whole lives, must aim for the end, when we'll see Jesus face-to-face. The
The main focus of this group is to help bridge the gifts and abilities of the pastor (and other staff) and laity in the church. Building the bridges that will link the faithfulness of the past with the possibilities of the future is crucial.
Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
A new millennium requires new methods of ministry.
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word
A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.
Missionary service is a priesthood duty.
You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry
Pastoral work is a commitment to the everyday: it is an act of faith that the great truths of salvation are workable in the ordinary universe.
Ministry in no way is a privilege ... it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.
You have a calling, but this does not mean that you must start your ministry immediately
Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.
Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community
The real service to God is when it involves people in need
A ministering angel shall my sister be.
Missionary work is a priesthood duty - an obligation the Lord expects of us who have been given so very much.
I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.
If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.
One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
I believe every minister of the gospel is called to this ministry first of all. The ministry of light, the ministry of destruction of darkness, the ministry of setting people free from ignorance.
One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.
The church is to help its members mature in Christ's calling
Miracles await you when you begin to serve people
But what is the theological cost of viewing ministry as management and pastors as professional organizers, albeit in charge of spiritual organizations? What is lost in the switch is the biblical vision of the pastor as a shepherd of a flock of souls. Such
Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.