ministry

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d3a6a1d	I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.	ministry	Watchman Nee
64fd232	Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief, and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart, can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken.	pain gratitude empathy compassion priesthood-of-all-believers ministry	Henri J.M. Nouwen
3c23a9e	This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather share it as the source of healing and new life? It is important to realize that you cannot get a Ph.D. in caring, that caring cannot be delegated by specialists, and that therefore nobody can be excused from caring. Still, in a society like ours, we have a strong tendency to refer to specialists. When someone does not feel well, we quickly think, 'Where can we find a doctor?' When someone is confused, we easily advise him to go to a counselor. And when someone is dying, we quickly call a priest. Even when someone wants to pray we wonder if there is a minister around.	priesthood-of-all-believers ministry specialization church	Henri J.M. Nouwen
49ee6ce	What right have such men to represent Christianity--as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?	ministry mediocrity	George Eliot
0ed4c3c	Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.	ministry social-gospel	Watchman Nee
72dc250	The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.	christianity jesus pastoral-ministry clergy god-s-love ministry	Henri J.M. Nouwen
f5e9547	"Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman"."	ministry popularity	George Eliot
9270129	God is immutable--He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!	faith change god love ministry target never constant christian	Elizabeth George
d58d592	Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving of souls in measurable numbers. The local minister was judged either by his charismatic powers or by his ability to prepare his congregation for the preaching of some itinerant ministerial charmer who would really awaken its members. The 'star' system prevailed in religion before it reached the theater. As the evangelical impulse became more widespread and more dominant, the selection and training of ministers was increasingly shaped by the revivalist criterion of ministerial merit. The Puritan ideal of the minister as an intellectual and educational leader was steadily weakened in the face of the evangelical ideal of the minister as a popular crusader and exhorter. Theological education itself became more instrumental. Simple dogmatic formulations were considered sufficient. In considerable measure the churches withdrew from intellectual encounters with the secular world, gave up the idea that religion is a part of the whole life of intellectual experience, and often abandoned the field of rational studies on the assumption that they were the natural province of science alone. By 1853 an outstanding clergyman complained that there was 'an impression, somewhat general, that an intellectual clergyman is deficient in piety, and that an eminently pious minister is deficient in intellect.	christianity great-awakening revivalism pastors evangelism ministry evangelicalism church	Richard Hofstadter
432cd64	The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken.	acoustics priestcraft stained-glass-window rabbit-angstrom ministry wedding church	John Updike
f7057a0	God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.	personality ministry culture	Beth Moore
366da71	You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.	thought-life ministry discipleship	Frank Herbert
5d16a55	We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.	limitation sovereignty-of-god ministry weakness	Watchman Nee
c431910	The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.	suffering detachment ministry	Bill Bryson
a7f21d4	If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.	ministry distraction vocation job focus	Barbara W. Tuchman
07eeb15	He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.	religiousness openness ministry authenticity humility pride	E.M. Forster
383dad4	Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.	ministry graciousness	Beth Moore
6584d47	Curiosity - if not desire, if not plain kindness - might have led him to greater zeal.	passion openness ministry	Geraldine Brooks
0e7801d	One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.	worldliness ministry	Barbara W. Tuchman
70f3549	The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.	leadership dominion paternalism ministry idolatry	Barbara W. Tuchman
a815c20	The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.	ministry mission self-forgetfulness humility	Doris Kearns Goodwin
ecb5d84	People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.	ministry spiritual-warfare pacifism	Doris Kearns Goodwin
b62443f	the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.	ministry	Geraldine Brooks
d11bfe3	You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.	provision ministry discipleship	Geraldine Brooks
96b4884	Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids of modernity it has volunteered itself right out of existence. Demystification has dwindled into desacralization. The escape from routinization has become a convenient cover for the demise of repentance. The postmodern pastor is trying to learn anew to listen to the deeper range of feelings of others, without forgetfulness of the Word of God.	confession ministry pastoral-care church sin	Thomas C. Oden
1eb876c	The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.	ministry pastoral-care sin	Thomas C. Oden
c004106	Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the discipline of listening. The attentive listener is a chosen agent of divine reconciliation. When the moment for keen listening is offered, take it as an inestimable gift.	ministry pastoral-care listening	Thomas C. Oden
b849f67	One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.	ministry pastoral-care repentance sin	Thomas C. Oden

d3a6a1d

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

ministry

Watchman Nee

64fd232

Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief, and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart, can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken.

pain gratitude empathy compassion priesthood-of-all-believers ministry

Henri J.M. Nouwen

3c23a9e

This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather share it as the source of healing and new life? It is important to realize that you cannot get a Ph.D. in caring, that caring cannot be delegated by specialists, and that therefore nobody can be excused from caring. Still, in a society like ours, we have a strong tendency to refer to specialists. When someone does not feel well, we quickly think, 'Where can we find a doctor?' When someone is confused, we easily advise him to go to a counselor. And when someone is dying, we quickly call a priest. Even when someone wants to pray we wonder if there is a minister around.

priesthood-of-all-believers ministry specialization church

Henri J.M. Nouwen

49ee6ce

What right have such men to represent Christianity--as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?

ministry mediocrity

George Eliot

0ed4c3c

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

ministry social-gospel

Watchman Nee

72dc250

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.

christianity jesus pastoral-ministry clergy god-s-love ministry

Henri J.M. Nouwen

f5e9547

"Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman"."

ministry popularity

George Eliot

9270129

God is immutable--He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!

faith change god love ministry target never constant christian

Elizabeth George

d58d592

Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving of souls in measurable numbers. The local minister was judged either by his charismatic powers or by his ability to prepare his congregation for the preaching of some itinerant ministerial charmer who would really awaken its members. The 'star' system prevailed in religion before it reached the theater. As the evangelical impulse became more widespread and more dominant, the selection and training of ministers was increasingly shaped by the revivalist criterion of ministerial merit. The Puritan ideal of the minister as an intellectual and educational leader was steadily weakened in the face of the evangelical ideal of the minister as a popular crusader and exhorter. Theological education itself became more instrumental. Simple dogmatic formulations were considered sufficient. In considerable measure the churches withdrew from intellectual encounters with the secular world, gave up the idea that religion is a part of the whole life of intellectual experience, and often abandoned the field of rational studies on the assumption that they were the natural province of science alone. By 1853 an outstanding clergyman complained that there was 'an impression, somewhat general, that an intellectual clergyman is deficient in piety, and that an eminently pious minister is deficient in intellect.

christianity great-awakening revivalism pastors evangelism ministry evangelicalism church

Richard Hofstadter

432cd64

The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken.

acoustics priestcraft stained-glass-window rabbit-angstrom ministry wedding church

John Updike

f7057a0

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

personality ministry culture

Beth Moore

366da71

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

thought-life ministry discipleship

Frank Herbert

5d16a55

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

limitation sovereignty-of-god ministry weakness

Watchman Nee

c431910

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.

suffering detachment ministry

Bill Bryson

a7f21d4

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

ministry distraction vocation job focus

Barbara W. Tuchman

07eeb15

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

religiousness openness ministry authenticity humility pride

E.M. Forster

383dad4

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

ministry graciousness

Beth Moore

6584d47

Curiosity - if not desire, if not plain kindness - might have led him to greater zeal.

passion openness ministry

Geraldine  Brooks

0e7801d

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

worldliness ministry

Barbara W. Tuchman

70f3549

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

leadership dominion paternalism ministry idolatry

Barbara W. Tuchman

a815c20

The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.

ministry mission self-forgetfulness humility

Doris Kearns Goodwin

ecb5d84

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

ministry spiritual-warfare pacifism

Doris Kearns Goodwin

b62443f

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.

ministry

Geraldine  Brooks

d11bfe3

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

provision ministry discipleship

Geraldine  Brooks

96b4884

Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids of modernity it has volunteered itself right out of existence. Demystification has dwindled into desacralization. The escape from routinization has become a convenient cover for the demise of repentance. The postmodern pastor is trying to learn anew to listen to the deeper range of feelings of others, without forgetfulness of the Word of God.

confession ministry pastoral-care church sin

Thomas C. Oden

1eb876c

The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.

ministry pastoral-care sin

Thomas C. Oden

c004106

Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the discipline of listening. The attentive listener is a chosen agent of divine reconciliation. When the moment for keen listening is offered, take it as an inestimable gift.

ministry pastoral-care listening

Thomas C. Oden

b849f67

One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.

ministry pastoral-care repentance sin

Thomas C. Oden