Quotes on Ministry in the Church
"A lot of theology you hear preached today is a cheap grace sold on the market place of religion". B.H. Clendennen.
"The moment the Church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her." - C.H. Spurgeon
"The preacher should...see preaching much more as a declaration of war, a conflict in which well-disciplined words march as to war to bring the hearers to surrender to Jesus Christ. We need to use the pulpit as a battle station." - C.J. Miller
"Paul's letters are the advanced teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ. No great preacher has arisen to bless the people of God who has not lighted his torch at the flame kindled by Paul. Whole sermons may be found in separate words: whole volumes in single sentences. Even after nineteen hundred years, Paul is preaching every week in a thousand languages in a hundred thousand pulpits all over the world." - P.C. Nelson
"Paul said we were ministers of God. Not ministers about God, but ministers of God. You cannot minister what you don't have. When you have God, you can minister God." - B.H. Clendennen
"What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit." - C.H. Spurgeon
"The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap." - C.H. Spurgeon
"Contemporary evangelism is a human system of methodology, and modern methodology will lead to the compromise of Biblical Doctrine. You cannot package the Gospel as you do merchandise. We are not salesmen; we are ambassadors for
the Lord Jesus through His Word." - O. Talmadge Spence
"Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service." - Howard Carter
"There are those who will exaggerate in order to gain ministry. There are those who will lie in order to promote themselves in ministry. There are those who will slander and blacken others in order to further their own opportunities in ministry. There are those who will keep quiet and go blind in order to not have to make a controversial stand in ministry. There are those who will neglect their God given charge to deal with issues in the church in order to maintain their popularity in ministry. All such ministers, preachers, missionaries and teacher’s love Gods ministry and service more than they love God!" - K. Malcomson
"In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful." - James Denney
"Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God." - Robert Murray McCheyne
"We must preach a Person - not a policy or a principle. Not a movement but the Master. Not a creed but the Christ. Not a system but a Saviour. And must not ask what will draw, but Who will draw? Christ is All in All. He is the centre and circumfrence. I do love Him."
"It seems that preachers today would rather sacrifice faithfullness in order to recieve acceptance, popularity and open-doors. But this will never be honoured by God with a Heaven Sent Revival. God only entrusts faithful men. Those who exagerate concerning ministry today will miss revival tomorrow. Those who seek the applause of man today will miss Gods applause tomorrow. Those who seek to be noticed and hailed today will be forgotten tomorrow." - K. Malcomson
"Show me a preacher with more interest toward anything more than a prayer meeting and I’ll show you a preacher with adultery in his heart." - B.H. Clendennen
"There is a danger that many are more anxious to display their abilities in Christian activities, and to parade their gifts, and that they have thus no time to be holy. It costs more to be holy than to be externally active." - D.P. Williams
“It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.”
- George Whitefield
"After fifty-five years of ministry, I see that most of what I suffered was not because of what I did wrong but because of what I did right!" - B.H. Clendennen
"A committee (or church board) is a company of the incompetent chosen by the unwilling to do the unnecessary." - Dr. Vance Havner
“As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.” - George Whitefield
"A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.” – John Owen
“A preacher’s life should be a commentary upon his doctrine… Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.” – Thomas Brooks
“It were better to empty a Church and preach the Cross, than to fill it by
keeping silent like a coward. It were better to fail as Paul failed with the
Jews, than to succeed by being a traitor to the Cross.” - George Morrison
"The moment the Church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her." - C.H. Spurgeon
"The preacher should...see preaching much more as a declaration of war, a conflict in which well-disciplined words march as to war to bring the hearers to surrender to Jesus Christ. We need to use the pulpit as a battle station." - C.J. Miller
"Paul's letters are the advanced teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ. No great preacher has arisen to bless the people of God who has not lighted his torch at the flame kindled by Paul. Whole sermons may be found in separate words: whole volumes in single sentences. Even after nineteen hundred years, Paul is preaching every week in a thousand languages in a hundred thousand pulpits all over the world." - P.C. Nelson
"Paul said we were ministers of God. Not ministers about God, but ministers of God. You cannot minister what you don't have. When you have God, you can minister God." - B.H. Clendennen
"What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit." - C.H. Spurgeon
"The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap." - C.H. Spurgeon
"Contemporary evangelism is a human system of methodology, and modern methodology will lead to the compromise of Biblical Doctrine. You cannot package the Gospel as you do merchandise. We are not salesmen; we are ambassadors for
the Lord Jesus through His Word." - O. Talmadge Spence
"Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service." - Howard Carter
"There are those who will exaggerate in order to gain ministry. There are those who will lie in order to promote themselves in ministry. There are those who will slander and blacken others in order to further their own opportunities in ministry. There are those who will keep quiet and go blind in order to not have to make a controversial stand in ministry. There are those who will neglect their God given charge to deal with issues in the church in order to maintain their popularity in ministry. All such ministers, preachers, missionaries and teacher’s love Gods ministry and service more than they love God!" - K. Malcomson
"In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful." - James Denney
"Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God." - Robert Murray McCheyne
"We must preach a Person - not a policy or a principle. Not a movement but the Master. Not a creed but the Christ. Not a system but a Saviour. And must not ask what will draw, but Who will draw? Christ is All in All. He is the centre and circumfrence. I do love Him."
"It seems that preachers today would rather sacrifice faithfullness in order to recieve acceptance, popularity and open-doors. But this will never be honoured by God with a Heaven Sent Revival. God only entrusts faithful men. Those who exagerate concerning ministry today will miss revival tomorrow. Those who seek the applause of man today will miss Gods applause tomorrow. Those who seek to be noticed and hailed today will be forgotten tomorrow." - K. Malcomson
"Show me a preacher with more interest toward anything more than a prayer meeting and I’ll show you a preacher with adultery in his heart." - B.H. Clendennen
"There is a danger that many are more anxious to display their abilities in Christian activities, and to parade their gifts, and that they have thus no time to be holy. It costs more to be holy than to be externally active." - D.P. Williams
“It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.”
- George Whitefield
"After fifty-five years of ministry, I see that most of what I suffered was not because of what I did wrong but because of what I did right!" - B.H. Clendennen
"A committee (or church board) is a company of the incompetent chosen by the unwilling to do the unnecessary." - Dr. Vance Havner
“As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.” - George Whitefield
"A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.” – C.H. Spurgeon
“He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.” – John Owen
“A preacher’s life should be a commentary upon his doctrine… Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.” – Thomas Brooks
“It were better to empty a Church and preach the Cross, than to fill it by
keeping silent like a coward. It were better to fail as Paul failed with the
Jews, than to succeed by being a traitor to the Cross.” - George Morrison