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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.
From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.
Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.
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.
I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.
A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.
It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.