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A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War.
This is the ministry and its work
not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.
Advisers advise, and ministers decide.
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.
Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
A minister may be diligent in his work, regular in his family, resident with his people and attentive to them, and in many respects exemplary in his outward conduct, and yet not preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified.32
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!
As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.
Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy ... But our task is the opposite of distraction ... how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.
Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.
Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
He's a minister. Seems nice.
Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
Clergy are men as well as other folks.
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.
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.
Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.
Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.
Representatives of the churches should help guide people in resolving their crisis
We are ordained to work for the increase of the government of Christ
Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.
Prayer and temptation, the Bible and meditation, make a true minister of the gospel.
We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.
The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.
All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;
Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
We need priests who are men of the interior life, "God's watchmen" and pastors passionately committed to the evangelization of the world, and not social workers or politicians.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
The preacher must have, bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child.
A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.
Ministry in the twenty-first century will be impacted by the example of the "sons of God.
Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.
A new millennium requires new methods of ministry.
Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.
Ministerial leadership is, first and finally, discipleship.
A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.
EPH4.11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
If your minister comes to you frankly, tells you of your sin, and warns you faithfully, thank God for him. He is your best friend; he is a heaven-sent man. But if a minister speaks smooth, oily words to
God has called us to minister and anointed us to serve Him and not ourselves
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.
Our success in ministry is not to elevate us but to glorify Him who has called and equipped us
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
A minister who is much before the public has need to be thick skinned, and to exercise to a very high degree the virtue of longsuffering.
The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
Ministry is received, not achieved.
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.
Before we can minister to others, we must permit God to minister to us.
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15
You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to
Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.
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?
Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.
I am not an 'elder', 'deacon', nor a 'pastor', and I do not have any ambitions to become one!".
~R. Alan Woods {2012]
The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.
A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor ...
The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men.
A church that likes power likes prayer.
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set.
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
Many forget that most of the greatest theologians God has given to the church were also pastors and teachers in the local church.
You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can't take the ministry out of the minister.
How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.
To be a minister of the Word in any capacity, one MUST experience a call.
If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.
The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than other people. Their sole qualification seems to have been their initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said, "Follow me."
A pastor with no experience in a church your size or slightly larger. A pastor with a lawsuit or one
Pastors are over-extended taking care of a few hundred sheep in their church
As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this - does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?43
Pastors spend a good bit of time helping people with their sin. Who helps them with their sin?
We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.
Our Lord Jesus was not above letting folk minister to Him, for he knew how happy it makes one to do aught for another. It's the happiest work in earth.
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
But rarely do you hear a church described, first and foremost, by the character, power, and content of its preaching. This is because few preachers today are true servants of the Word.
I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.
for the French clergy,
A priest? I said.
A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis.
Theologian, said the other.
One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.
I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
Every Christian should be a faithful minister and steward of God
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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.