Ministry Quotes - Page 12

• The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Giving, Verbs

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• On the Web, all advantages are temporary, and you must keep innovating to stay ahead

  Jakob Nielsen

  Advantage, Temporary

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• Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

  Edward John Carnell

  Substitutes, Relevance, Entry

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• If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!

  Elizabeth George

  Passion, Home, People

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• ... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

  John Stott

  Believe, Biblical, Bridges

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• One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

  Bill Johnson

  Memories, Imagination, Sides

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• When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the feeling. When the attack comes from within, no such indulgence is shown. 'He was one of us,' runs the refrain.

  Michela Wrong

  Running, Feelings, Outsiders

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• If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

  Alan Hirsch

  Capacity, Ifs

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• Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Thinking, Giving

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.200, Random House

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• Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

  Albert Camus

  Men, Two, Four

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Teach

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.20, Barron's Educational Series

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• ‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Frustration, Focus, Energy

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• Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Vision, Agendas

  Thomas Sowell (2010). “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, p.376, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.

  Alistair Begg

  Roots, Needs, May

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• Don't build your ministry on what you're against. Build your ministry on what you're for.

  Craig Groeschel

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• Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!

  Mike Ditka

  Jesus, Temptation, Stones

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• 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

  Christian, Men, Helping

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2018). “Words of Counsel: For All Leaders, Teachers, and Evangelists”, p.40, Aneko Press

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• 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

  Christian, Frustration, Preaching The Gospel

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• When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of
  unconverted church members.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Past, Men

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• In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

  Eddie Gibbs

  Years, Church, Doe

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• To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Cutting, Hands, Naked

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.236

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• 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

  Mean, Church, Ordinary

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.

  Doug Fields

  Jesus, People, Healthy

  Doug Fields (2009). “Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry: A Personal and Practical Guide to Starting Right”, p.82, Zondervan/Youth Specialties

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• Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Tired, Years

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• 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

  Jesus, Mean, Doors

  Morton T. Kelsey (1997). “The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century”, p.11, Paulist Press

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