Pastor Quotes - Page 14

• I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

  Mark Batterson

  Church, Breathe

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• Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

  Mark Batterson

  People, Desire, Driving

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• I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.

  Mark Batterson

  Past, Thinking, Healthy

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• Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

  T. B. Joshua

  Comfort, Edification, Sin

  "Prophetic Birth - A Wednesday Wonder". All Voices, June 15, 2009.

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• When I was at seminary in my early twenties, one of my teachers said to me, "You're going to have to decide. Either you're going to be an academic or you're going to be a pastor. You can't be both." I remember thinking, Rats! I want to be both! Why are you telling me I can't do these two things?And so I have kind of oscillated to and always wanted to do both.

  N. T. Wright

  Teacher, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that violate our sincerely held religious beliefs. We have to stand up and fight for religious liberty. That's where this fight is going.

  Bobby Jindal

  Christian, Religious, Fighting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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• Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humanity, Church, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Past, People, Community

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.88, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.

  Heather Headley

  Growing Up, Father, School

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• I grew up going to church. My dad was a pastor. I knew that God had a plan for my life. I knew that Jesus was the only way to Heaven. But I loved sin. The Bible says that sin is pleasurable for a season and I loved it.

  Dominic Balli

  Jesus, Dad, Heaven

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Past, Vision, Church

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• In my leadership conferences, pastors ask, "Do you have a vision for my church?" Many times they want me to give them a picture of where they should go and what their church should look like. When these pastors do this, I always feel bad.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Vision, Church

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hard Times, Leader, Vision

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Couple, Thinking

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.

  John C. Maxwell

  Community, Needs, Spending Time

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

  Jack Canfield

  Disappointment, Self, People

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• In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.

  Francis Chan

  Laughter, Guy, Church

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• As a pastor I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

  Andy Stanley

  Talking, Years, People

  "Andy Stanley on the Principle of the Path". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 18, 2009.

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• I'm the son of a pastor and evangelist and I've described many times how my father, when I was a child, was an alcoholic. He was not a Christian. And my father left my mother and left me when I was just three years old. And someone invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church. And he gave his heart to Jesus and it turned him around. And he got on a plane and he flew back to my mother and me.

  Ted Cruz

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Jesus meets every one of our deepest needs. And what we need to do is accept his gift of a pastor-given, purposeful living home in heaven.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Home, Heaven

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm not looking for peace on earth through a political solution. I'm a pastor. The Bible talks about three kinds of peace. There is peace with God. There's the peace of God. And there's peace with each other.

  Rick Warren

  Political, Three, Peace With God

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lunch, Vision

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility. We can't do that as pastors. We need to have a strong voice of conviction, and the way we can do that is through Scripture.

  Max Lucado

  Strong, Voice, Temptation

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Vision, Failing, Strategy

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Sermons

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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