Top Ten Quotes: Authentic Ministry
Not long ago our staff team read through Michael Reeves’ Authentic Ministry: Serving from the Heart. I was first introduced to Reeves a few years ago through his Delighting in the Trinity, which is – well – delightful. And my latest interaction proved to be the same.
Authentic Ministry is a book you can technically read in one sitting…it clocks in at just 122 pages. But you don’t want to do that. It’s so rich and thought-provoking, you’ll want to leave space to put it down and ponder a while.
Here are my top ten favorite quotes:
- …our ministry must flow out of an enjoyment of him. It cannot move on from an enjoyment of him.
- …when Christians define themselves by something other than Christ, they poison the air all round.
- Do not settle for small prayers to a small god.
- …people will seek to put you on a pedestal. Will you let them?
- Seek to do excellently, but not to out-do brothers and sisters.
- …pride spoils community, but community can also help quell pride.
- …we’re brought into Christ bruised and bruising. “He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
- If we forget that we are justified by faith through grace, every trial becomes a double trial; we increase our suffering as we wonder if God hates us.
- There are brave and faithful saints who have been kept through adversity. And there are foolish failures, just like us. There’s Noah the drunk: the Lord helped him finish. There’s David the adulterer: the Lord helped him finish.
- Brothers and sisters, don’t settle for a letter race, a race towards a fickle and uncertain hope.
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