Tag Archives: Ministry

Making the Scriptures Come Alive in Your Preaching

True preaching is never stale or dull or academic, but fresh and pungent with the living authority of God. But the Scripture comes alive to the congregation only if it has come alive to the preacher first. Only if God has spoken to him through the Word which he preaches will they hear the voice of God through his lips.

John R. W. Stott, The Preacher’s Portrait, p. 30


The Grand Secret of Pastoral Ministry


Those Who Shouldn’t Be Spiritual Leaders

No man who is self-serving, proud, lazy, or hypocritical should have followers.

Leroy Eims, Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, p. 40


The Pastor’s Prayer Life

No minister is fully qualified to help others until he has been in close touch with God.

Homer Kent Sr., The Pastor and His Work, p. 13


Instruments in the Hands of God

Ministers are mere instruments in the hands of God. The doctrines which they preach are not their own discoveries, and the power which renders their preaching successful is not in them.

Charles Hodge, A Commentary on 1 & 2 Corinthians, p. 51


God’s Favorite Method To Make Christ Known

God makes Himself known today supremely in Christ, that He does so through the Scriptures, and that His favorite method of making known the Christ who speaks in the Scriptures is through preaching.

Andrew Blackwood, The Fine Art of Public Worship, p. 2


Delegation Is a Part of Discipleship

Since appropriate delegation multiplies leadership potential, the good leader leads best by reproducing himself.

Walter, Trudy, and Gilbert Fremont, Forming a New Generation, p. 150


Three Stages in God’s Work

I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.

Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)


The Privilege of Evangelism

It is a great privilege to be a soul winner. It is a privilege that angels covet. I believe the angels would be glad to leave their high estate and come down into this old sin and woe… if they might have the privilege of winning souls.

Monroe Parker (1909 – 1994)


Opportunity

He who observes his opportunities will find them plentifully given him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)


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