Ministry

Forget Yourself in the Service of God

He who forgets himself in the service of God may be sure that God will not forget him.

– an unattributed statement found written on a piece of paper in an old copy of The Ministry of Song, a book by Frances Ridley Havergal

We Are Smug to the Lostness of Men – Leonard Ravenhill

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We’ve been “living in Laodicea”—lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

True Definition of Preaching – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Any true definition of preaching must say that that man is there to deliver the message of God… He has been sent, he is a commissioned person, and he is standing there as the mouthpiece of God and of Christ to address these people.

– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –

In Love With Prayer – 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 –

Prayer is the Essential Work – Oswald Chambers

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work. It is the supreme activity of everything that is noblest in our personality.

– Oswald Chambers –