Top 100 Church Ministry Quotes
#1. Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Lord, save the Church from desiring to have pews, choirs, organs, or instrumental music, and a congregational ministry, like other heathen Churches around them!
Peter Cartwright
#3. The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#4. True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential.
John Paul Warren
#5. For the church to be the church - not just a place where you can find ministry but where the people are a ministering community - every believer must accept his or her role in the life of every other believer.
Paul David Tripp
#6. We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.
John Paul Warren
#7. Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church it has not valued much.
Pope Francis
#8. No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.
Martin Luther
#9. Without a confession of faith the church's evaluation of its ministers is haphazard and shallow at best; and the church will be in great danger of laying hands on novices and heretics, all because it does not measure candidates for the ministry by a broad and deep standard.
Samuel E. Waldron
#10. God wants every member of the Body of Christ to be a blessing one to another; that's why, everyone has to be involved in a ministry.
Sunday Adelaja
#11. What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?
Dillon Burroughs
#12. Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.
Pope Theodoros II
#13. I recommend getting yourself out from under any ministry that PREACHES LAW or a MIXTURE OF LAW AND GRACE, and instead listening to or reading anything you can find to reinforce the GRACE MESSAGE.
Paul Silway
#14. The goal of a church leader is not to do ministry for people, but rather to do ministry with people.
Eugene T. Wilson
#15. Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time.
Sunday Adelaja
#16. Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!
Jarrid Wilson
#17. The church growth movement has made many lasting contributions to our practice of ministry. But its overemphasis on technique and results can put too much pressure on ministers because it underemphasizes the importance of godly character and the sovereignty of God.
Timothy Keller
#18. The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.
John Piper
#19. I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time. I'm very close with my church, very close with the pastor and his wife, and I work with a girls' ministry here.
Tiffany Dupont
#20. Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.
Rick Warren
#21. The most important task that every pastor has is to get all his church members involved in some kind of ministry. That should be one of his main priorities. 3
Sunday Adelaja
#22. Whereas the public means of grace (such as church services) will do a lot of good to other Christians, those of us who are pastors have to rely a lot more on the private means of grace.
Thomas K. Ascol
#23. Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.
Kevin DeYoung
#24. If what you know no longer matters, the ministry cannot help but be another "helping profession" whose task is to attract people to church because of the appealing personality of the minister and the friendliness of the congregation.
Stanley Hauerwas
#25. Those on the verge of leaving the church do not want to be told the answers. They want to be invited into the conversation of seeking what is life-giving, truthful, and consistent with the person and ministry of Jesus.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#26. It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner
#27. Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through worship, broader through ministry, and larger through evangelism.
Rick Warren
#28. If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.
Gary Rohrmayer
#29. 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
#30. Paul did not begin by attacking the false teachers and their doctrines. He began by exalting Jesus Christ and showing His preeminence in five areas: the gospel message, redemption, creation, the church, and Paul's own ministry.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#31. It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.
Martin Luther
#32. 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
#33. The ministry of the church is a ministry of heaven's glory. When Jesus trained His disciples He was training them how to release high level realms of glory on the earth, which is exactly what they continued to do in the book of Acts.
Phil Mason
#34. The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#35. I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.
Billy Graham
#36. The church doesn't belong to the pastor; it belongs to Jesus Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
#37. The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands, as if severed from its task of saving sinners and healing human hurt.
Thomas C. Oden
#38. Luther says that vocations are a mask from God. That is, God hides Himself in the workplace, the family, the Church, and the seemingly secular society
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#39. Centers of influence are wholistic ministry centers, which connect church members with their communities and "place [them] where they will come in direct contact with those needing help."4
May Ellen Colon
#40. Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.
Gangai Victor
#41. I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
T.D. Jakes
#42. I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.
Marvin Sapp
#43. The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.
Timothy Keller
#44. The mistake that many people make, is that they use God to build up a ministry for themselves; they use the name of Jesus to build a church for themselves
Sunday Adelaja
#45. Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.
Gary Rohrmayer
#46. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.
Brandon Cox
#47. An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.
Gary Rohrmayer
#48. ,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
#49. The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.
Don Cousins
#50. In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups
Eddie Gibbs
#51. The Church is Christ's witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
John Paul Warren
#52. For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.
Daniel Henderson
#53. Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything ... not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.
Gene Edwards
#54. Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.
Daniel Henderson
#55. [R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.
Daniel Henderson
#56. As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
Johnny Hunt
#57. I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.
Ted Haggard
#58. A ministry gives us the opportunity to establish roots
Sunday Adelaja
#59. My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God's vision for your ministry.
Phil Pringle
#60. The promise of a social gospel was for Luther an irrelevant and ultimately irrelevant and ultimately cruel delusion.
Andrew Pettegree
#61. If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.
D.R. Silva
#62. We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
Mallory Ortberg
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.
Gary Rohrmayer
#66. Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.
Kris Vallotton
#67. The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#68. But this could be interpreted primarily in terms of the ministry of word and sacrament, in accordance with the previous models of the Church, rather than in terms of caritative service.
Avery Dulles
#69. A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.
Roger Mahony
#70. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.
Mike Bickle
#71. The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
Leonard Ravenhill
#72. The best and the most talented in the pastoral ministry and in denominational hierarchies harm themselves and harm the church most through their unrestrained ego and unwillingness to step off the high places. Sexual sin gets the press, but ego sin kills the church.
David Hansen
#73. Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.
Gary Rohrmayer
#74. We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well
Sunday Adelaja
#75. Ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.
Charles R. Swindoll
#76. Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church, with its members independent and free from debt, with time to labor in the ministry, can then successfully carry on the work of the Lord here on earth.
Henry D. Moyle
#78. Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.
Kevin Vanhoozer
#79. Preachers' kids who gravitate toward ministry are commodities. I hire all I can. We see church differently than everybody else.
Andy Stanley
#80. Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family.
Ross Parsley
#81. Where Christ's Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.
Richard Sibbes
#82. To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.
Sue Mallory
#83. Jesus gave people the right to disbelieve it all if there was no demonstration of power upon His ministry. I hunger for the day when the Church will make the same statement to the world. If we're not doing the miracles that Jesus did, you don't have to believe us.
Bill Johnson
#84. The church must be united from the preschool ministry to the pulpit around one central understanding: the gospel transforms. Yes, the gospel must be the foundational truth on which each of these ministries takes their stand.
Matt Chandler
#86. I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship
John Paul Warren
#87. The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
William Ames
#88. 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.
Charles R. Swindoll
#89. I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the way of Jesus.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
#90. 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
#91. Catechesis is the church's ministry of grounding and growing God's people in the Gospel and its implications for doctrine, devotion, duty, and delight.
J.I. Packer
#92. All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.
Todd Stocker
#93. Like the hub of a wheel, the church's corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.
Harold L. Senkbeil
#94. 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
#95. If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.
James MacDonald
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I felt responsible to use my gifts, but in future churches, that pointed in the direction of children's or music ministry. But, like many women in the church whom I knew, I felt neither a call nor a predisposition to children or song.
Alan F. Johnson
#99. The family of God is about enjoying the bounty of God's table and fellowship with one another and with the Holy Spirit.
Ross Parsley
#100. When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule. You won't need the church to schedule ministry for you; you will approach work, marriage, parenting, extended family, friendships, and community with a ministry mentality.
Paul David Tripp
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