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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

I see everything I do as an extension of the ministry. It's all about service.

It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.