Use your ministry to build people, not people to build your ministry.
– Jacquelyn K. Heasley –
Ministry
The Reason the Church Exists – CS Lewis
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
– CS Lewis –
Jesus and Jesus Alone – Count Zinzendorf
I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.
– Count Nicolaus Ludwn Zinzendorf –
A Minister Who Does Not Pray – Thomas Coke
A minister, who prays not, who is not in love with prayer, is not a minister of the Church of God. He is a dry tree, which occupies in vain a place in Christ’s garden. He is an enemy, and not a father, of the people. He is a stranger, who has taken the place of the shepherd, and to whom the salvation of the flock is an indifferent thing.
– Thomas Coke –
How a Christian Should Live – David Livingstone
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.
– David Livingstone –
Fire that Leads to Action – Unknown
Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead in my feet.
– Unknown –
Moved by Eternity? – William Bramwell
How is it that the soul being of such value, and God so great, eternity so near, and yet we are so little moved?
– William Bramwell –
A Minister Needs Boldness – William Gurnall
A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.
– William Gurnall –
God Equips Us to Obey – Elizabeth Elliot
God never issues instructions He is not prepared to equip us to obey.
– Elizabeth Elliot –