Ministry Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Jesus, Believe, Church

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• In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Community, Movement

  Alan Hirsch, Tim Catchim (2012). “The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

  J. I. Packer

  Character, Giving, Spirit

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• As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Political, Experts, Approval

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• The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

  Darrin Patrick

  Years, Two, Keys

  Matt Carter, Darrin Patrick (2011). “For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon.

  Carl Tuttle

  Firsts, Spheres, Worship

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• I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

  Bill Vaughan

  Communication, Turkeys, Agriculture

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• It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.

  Giovanna Cau

  Girl, Country, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

  Billy Graham

  New York, Cities, Thank God

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• Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

  Rick Warren

  Strong, Commitment, Self

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• Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Mean, Revolution, Propaganda

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• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Anvils, Tablets, Students

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• 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.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Heart, Mind, Speak

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.634

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• Starbucks has kept me in the ministry.

  Tommy Barnett

  Starbucks

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• I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But your business is to trade with your spiritual abilities. ... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart are not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Business

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• One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

  John Piper

  Discovery, Important, Satisfaction

  John Piper (1997). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, Multnomah Pub

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• God-sent ministry, heeded and bowed to, leads to enlargement and blessing; but the Spirit's testimony rejected increases the guilt of him who hardens himself against it, and makes his condition far worse than before. It is ever the case that light refused makes the darkness all the deeper. Hence the need of a tender conscience, quick to respond to every word from God.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Blessing, Light, Darkness

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• I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

  Mick Jagger

  Girlfriend, Bankers, Culture

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• It is easy in ministry or in life, to begin to rely on acquired knowledge instead of fresh knowledge revealed. We must maintain our union with Him to enjoy fresh oil and then there is no old oil. The life of God or presence of God can't be stored, it has to be current. It is a well of life, continually outflowing.

  Gloria Copeland

  Oil, Unions, Easy

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• The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of Intelligence and their people. This is why we witness a number of journalists and human rights activists, my colleagues, and a number of feminists, in prison.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Iran, Numbers

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• When trust permeates a ministry, great things are possible, not the least of which is an opportunity to reach the ministry's potential.

  Max De Pree

  Opportunity, Great Things

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• I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Sorry, People, Notes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Aunt, Circles, Godmother

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

  Matt Chandler

  Book, Years, Profound

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• It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice... Restorative justice is a fad.

  Douglas Carswell

  Thinking, Justice, Fads

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