To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving of souls in measurable numbers. The local minister was judged either by his charismatic powers or by his ability to prepare his congregation for the preaching of some itinerant ministerial charmer who would really awaken its members. The 'star' system prevailed in religion before it reached the theater. As the evangelical impulse became more widespread and more dominant, the selection and training of ministers was increasingly shaped by the revivalist criterion of ministerial merit. The Puritan ideal of the minister as an intellectual and educational leader was steadily weakened in the face of the evangelical ideal of the minister as a popular crusader and exhorter. Theological education itself became more instrumental. Simple dogmatic formulations were considered sufficient. In considerable measure the churches withdrew from intellectual encounters with the secular world, gave up the idea that religion is a part of the whole life of intellectual experience, and often abandoned the field of rational studies on the assumption that they were the natural province of science alone. By 1853 an outstanding clergyman complained that there was 'an impression, somewhat general, that an intellectual clergyman is deficient in piety, and that an eminently pious minister is deficient in intellect.

If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!

If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us

We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well

Many things can be released into our lives in the spirit realm through a ministry

God will constantly send people to you who need the fruit of your ministry

You must please God and not man with your ministry

What is important to God is that you remain faithful to Him in your ministry

We are called to serve God and not to rely on our achievement in ministry

We must all have a ministry we can function in, no matter how small

In order to know your ministry, you need to start serving and be under the leadership of someone, who already knows his ministry

Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church

A ministry gives us the opportunity to establish roots

Our success in ministry is not to elevate us but to glorify Him who has called and equipped us

Jesus had the ministry of light (knowledge).

We are all called to the ministry.

As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.