When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.
Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.
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