Ministry Quotes - Page 20

• True ministry isn't just 'cut and paste,' it has to be birthed from the inside out.

  Steven Furtick

  Cutting, Worship

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• Starbucks has kept me in the ministry.

  Tommy Barnett

  Starbucks

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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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• Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry.

  Flower A. Newhouse

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Angel

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Christian, Jesus, May

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• Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Broken, Doe

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.93, Image

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• If I had only 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Regret, Thinking

  "Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series".

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• A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

  Horatius Bonar

  Peaceful, Fruit, Intimacy

  Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Way, Privilege

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• If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Giving, Tests, Messages

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 24, 2013

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• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Kings, Artist, Imagination

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• Our passion is to imitate the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This requires we must follow Jesus out of baptismal waters, through our personal deserts, and into the harvest. We want to take the ammunition of the balanced evangelical theology with the fire power of Pentecostal practice, loading & readying the best of both worlds to hit the target of making & nurturing disciples.

  John Wimber

  Jesus, Passion, Fire

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• All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Men, Spirit

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.334, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Wisdom of a forefather" by Colorado State University, February 11, 2009.

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• This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Suffering

  Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

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• Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do Facebook’?

  Leonard Sweet

  Sorry, Book, Years

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• If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God’s anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with ‘it’. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

  Craig Groeschel

  Integrity, Passion, Heart

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• The first miracle after the baptism of the Holy Ghost was wroughtly upon a beggar. It means that the first service of a Holy Ghost-baptized church is to the poor; that its ministry is to those who are lowest down; that its gifts are for those who need them the most. As the Spirit was upon Jesus to preach the gospel to the poor, so His Spirit is upon His servants for the same purpose.

  Phineas F. Bresee

  Jesus, Mean, Servant Of God

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• Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Real, Lying

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Impact, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.33, BookBaby

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• The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge it was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they have narrated, had not Jesus actually rose from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Jesus, Personal Knowledge, Rose

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• Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

  Brian Houston

  Team, Goal, Leader

  FaceBook post by Brian Houston from Nov 22, 2011

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