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.
One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something.
I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.
We must realize that the ministries and gifts of the Spirit are for everyday life, not just meetings.
The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.
Ministry need not be an office; it's a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith.
Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!
We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. . . no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.
If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?
Ministry is received, not achieved.
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry
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.
Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.
I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
