Christian Ministry Quotes

#1. In some Christian ministry, we assess how mature a believer is based on how much he knows. But the New Testament assesses the maturity of a believer based on how much he obeys (e.g. John 14:15; James 1:22-25)

Steve Smith

#2. The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

Paul Washer

#3. The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Isaac

#4. In areas where the Bible has left us free, when we carry out Christian ministry, we should be constantly engaged in cultural adaptation - refraining from certain attitudes or behaviors to remove unnecessary stumbling blocks from the paths of people with culturally framed perceptions.

Timothy Keller

#5. No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry

Joel Beeke

#6. To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective.

Bill Mills

#7. The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

John Piper

#8. Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set.

Johnny Hunt

#9. 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.

Priscilla Shirer

#10. ,iSince the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manner the Holy Spirit gifts them.

Alan Garrett

#11. We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

Wayne Cordeiro

#12. Christian leadership is a dead-end street when nothing new is expected, when everything sounds familiar and when ministry has regressed to the level of routine.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#13. To be profitable to God, your calling and ministry, the doors of utterance,ministry and faith must remain open.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#14. I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out tomorrow and committed one act of rebellion.

David Jeremiah

#15. I recognize that every role I play, I'm not going to play someone that has a ministry or that is a Christian, and I don't think that's what God has called me to do. The gift and talent that He's given me as an actor, director, producer is to entertain, sometimes to inform, most times to inspire.

Kim Fields

#16. Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

Elizabeth George

#17. This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

Witness Lee

#18. A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.

Martin Luther

#19. Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

Bill Bright

#20. Our faith institutions have the best product that God can offer; but we have the worst customer service imaginable.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#21. Helping people to know God and to be obedient to him is perhaps the greatest gift we can bestow. Understood in this way, Christian education can be be one of the most compassionate ministries of the church.

Perry G. Downs

#22. No one is going to be powerful in their ministry if they are hiding something that they are afraid people will find out at any moment.

David Jeremiah

#23. One major but by no means final protocol that is very useful for ministry planning is to deploy a ministry readiness worksheet (see Figure 6.1) for each educational activity of the church or Christian organization.

James Estep Jr.

#24. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

D.R. Silva

#25. The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#26. Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing.

John Henry Jowett

#27. We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.

Dwight Edwards

#28. Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

Joel Beeke

#29. God is immutable - He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!

Elizabeth George

#30. Pantheists creep into the ministry, but they are generally cunning enough to concede the bredath of their minds beneath Christian phraseology.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#31. Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#32. Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

Colin S. Smith

#33. Jesus was always on the front-lines washing dirty feet. Humility soon is shelved in ministry and we start thinking to much of ourselves. It is hard to effectively minister in Christ name when we look down on someone, but if we are washing their feet we look up to them giving them value and worth.

Jonah Books

#34. If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.

F.B. Meyer

#35. Ministry in no way is a privilege ... it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

Henri Nouwen

#36. It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

Charles Hodge

#37. As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.

Johnny Hunt

#38. As we stand on the precipice of a life of ministry, we will have to answer the question that Jesus poses to each one of us: Are you willing to count the cost?

Erica Mbasan

#39. Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.

Adrian Rogers

#40. Ministry's not an option for a Christian; it's a privilege.

Lori Hatcher

#41. Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

David Jeremiah

#42. There is a long and well-documented tradition of wisdom in the Christian faith that any venture into leadership, whether by laity or clergy, is hazardous. it is necessary that there be leaders, but woe to those who become leaders.

Eugene H. Peterson

#43. It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a "call" is the man who devotes all his time to what is called "the ministry," whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

Charles Spurgeon

#44. When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.

Lesslie Newbigin

#45. As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

Stacie Orrico

#46. Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.

William Booth

#47. Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.

Lesslie Newbigin

#48. I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

Charles Spurgeon

#49. Prayer is a mighty ministry that any believer can have - anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstance.

Elizabeth George

#50. My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

D.R. Silva

#51. I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

John Piper