Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It’s about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.
Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.
Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.
Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.
You are God’s dream with skin on.
Suffering is seeing what Jesus sees, and joy is doing what Jesus does.
More is accomplished by spending time in God’s presence than by doing anything else.
If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.
Love looks like something.
As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.
I don’t want to grow up, I want to grow down.
The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.
The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love.
But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.
All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love’s sake.
Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father’s love, created for kindness, created for mercy.
The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.
The poor know they are in need.
Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.
God told me once, ‘I want you to come up to the lowest place.’
There is always enough because I died for you.