Top 78 Quotes About Jesus Ministry
#1. 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
#2. The reason that almost half of Mark's sixteen chapters describe the final period of Jesus' ministry is that it is in his suffering, death and resurrection that the revelation of God in Christ is most clearly seen.
William L. Lane
#3. Immediately, the water turned into wine. This was the first recorded miracle of Jesus' ministry on earth and I want to remind you that His miracles did not stop there. He will also do miracles in your life if you obey Him, and offer yourself as a clean pot He can fill.
Joyce Meyer
#4. Thus the Old Testament prophets, Jesus himself, and his apostles all attribute the divine power in his (Jesus) ministry not to the uniqueness of his deity, but rather to the ministry of the Holy Spirit through him.
Jack Deere
#5. The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.
David Platt
#6. The earnest worker soon learns his own weakness. If you seek humility, try hard work; if you would know your nothingness, attempt some great thing for Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#7. 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
#8. Prayer consists in the transformation of what we do in the name of Jesus to what Holy Spirit does in us as we follow Jesus.
Eugene H. Peterson
#9. Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications
Namsoon Kang
#10. 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
#11. We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry
Timothy Keller
#12. The heart of Christ is not only the heart of a man but has in it also the tenderness and gentleness of a woman. Jesus was not a man in the rigid sense of manhood as distinct from womanhood, but, as the Son of Man, the complete Head of Humanity.
A.B. Simpson
#13. 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
#14. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
Joel R. Beeke
#15. 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
#16. As a children's minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there's a simple prayer that, whoever's reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#17. We preach Christ crucified. The cross is the focal point in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It was no afterthought or emergency measure with God. Christ was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" [Revelation 3:8 KJV].
Billy Graham
#18. The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice.
Allan Boesak
#19. Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!
Mike Ditka
#20. Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.
Rick Warren
#22. Evangelism is more than simply encouraging decisions for Christ. It is urging people to become disciples - followers - of Jesus Christ. As such, the evangelist has a responsibility to make growth in discipleship possible for those who come to faith under his ministry.
Billy Graham
#23. Great is our calling,
We dare not be idle.
The saddle is in place,
And Jesus is bridle.
Kari L. Greenaway
#24. What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.
Morton T. Kelsey
#25. 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
#26. Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.
Doug Fields
#27. In His own ministry, Jesus did not come to improve God's view of man nearly so much as He came to improve man's view of God and to plead with them to love their Heavenly Father as He has always and will always love them.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#28. An individual gospel might have been designed as the gospel for a particular community, but when it was included in a collection with other writings of the same genre, the individual writings were viewed as complementary one to another, each presenting a distinctive aspect of the ministry of Jesus.
F.F. Bruce
#29. Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.
Leonard Sweet
#30. Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.
Andy Stanley
#31. The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;
not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.
Horace Mann
#32. Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.
Wayne Cordeiro
#33. When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.
Rick Warren
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferings of missions and evangelism and ministry and love, we choose against joy.
John Piper
#38. If I only had one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of Him. I am sure no minister will ever repent of having preached Him too much.
Charles Spurgeon
#39. Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie Ten Boom
#40. Mark's focus is kept squarely on Jesus's ministry; he is uninterested either in Jesus's birth or, perhaps surprisingly, in Jesus's resurrection, as he writes nothing at all about either event.
Reza Aslan
#41. The church doesn't belong to the pastor; it belongs to Jesus Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. Look at all the people who received miracles from Jesus during His ministry on earth. Not a single one of them deserved it.
Paul Silway
#44. 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
#45. Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished His fleshly dimension with its limitations of time and place. He entered a higher realm of restoration and love by becoming an indwelling Spirit.
Earl Paulk
#46. I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
Bill Hybels
#47. A ministry gives us the opportunity to establish roots
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe.
Rick Warren
#49. 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
#50. Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus Christ, when we follow his call through our person, we're sent to act for the concrete person of our neighbor in the world.
Andrew Root
#51. Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.
Kris Vallotton
#52. We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus.
Pope Francis
#53. [Jesus] prayed briefly when He was in a crowd; He prayed a little longer when He was with His disciples; and He prayed all night when He was alone. Today, many in the ministry tend to reverse that process.
Billy Graham
#54. 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
#55. All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Matt Chandler
#56. 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
#57. Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.
Heidi Baker
#58. [Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer ... No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.
Billy Graham
#59. A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.
Adrian Rogers
#60. 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
#61. Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.
T.D. Jakes
#62. 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
#63. The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to [ at the feet of Jesus ].
Kevin DeYoung
#64. The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you've been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.
Myles Munroe
#65. Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. It is possible for ministry leaders to desire greatness in ways no different from anyone, anywhere in our culture. Attaching Jesus's name to these desires doesn't change the fact that they look just like the cravings of the world.
Zack Eswine
#69. Moreover, conservative Christians have come to accept that Jesus' gospel applies to the whole person and not just the soul. Didn't Jesus inaugurate his own ministry with a declaration of good news for the poor, the oppressed, the prisoners, and the blind?
Philip Yancey
#70. For Jesus, identity and acceptance come before achievement and ministry. This is joy no one can take away. You cannot earn acceptance.
John Ortberg
#72. The business we are about is the ministry of the Word, and the ministry of the Word seeks to grow up believers in Jesus Christ.
Scott M. Gibson
#73. When we reduce Christianity to a negative system where fasting becomes more sacred than feasting, law wins out over grace, and correct theology becomes more important than divine encounter, we in effect become the modern-day Pharisees - whose ministry Jesus was set against.
Debra Hirsch
#74. Jesus spent three decades allowing the Father to prepare Him for three short years of ministry.
Steve Shadrach
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.
Billy Graham
#78. 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
