ministry

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__ church and take the Gospel everywhere.

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 most and were considered expendable, as the birds of the air, and yet in Jesus' eyes were where one found the treasure of heaven, here, now, on earth.

The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

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.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart

Be faithful in your calling and you will fulfill your ministry to the end

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.

The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.

Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!