Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to...

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer....

Ministry’s not an option for a Christian; it’s a privilege.

The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.

If the world is to go beyond a curiosity well-guarded by cynicism in either academic tweeds or vulgar rap, YOUR POWER MUST BE EVIDENT IN MEETING MATERIAL NEEDS. And it can’t just happen once. The...

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage and servitude and get. He preached about providing for those who lacked the...

Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn’t done something and placing myself in his...

God’s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY…not perfection.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may,...

Very often we have common enemies to those in the world. They KNOW that the world is not as it could be, and they are stymied for a solution. As they see victories in our...

This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather...

The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh...

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.

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the job is that you just can’t please everybody all the time, no matter...

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

We have a sense of great expectations that is wholly blessed as we sense Your call on our lives from an early age. There may be aptitudes and giftings that are evident in our lives...

There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life.

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?” Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer’s plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

Dear church, John the baptist died for exposing the sins of others. Jesus died to actually pay for the sins of others.John was great, but we should not follow his model. Our model is Christ....

I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship

All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed.

Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.

The early Mormons were even less concerned about ministerial training. On several occasions, a man heard a discourse, submitted to baptism and confirmation, received a call to priesthood, and was sent on a mission –...

She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put...

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land’s value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a...

A piece of paper doesn’t make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

You are all seen by a God who is proud of those day to day things you do. Ministry doesn’t always mean speaking at a pulpit often it comes dressed as everyday work. Don’t ever...

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them...

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is...

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father’s love that He had no ambition of His...

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

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...