{"quotes":[{"text":"Don't just cry over your 10 or 20 member church. Sometimes, God gives you your future first. The ones you call little carry in them every possibility you desire of the future. God would send you leaders but they may come as weak men and women first. Don't be so 'gift' conscious that you fail to realize that certain things are results of growth.","author":"Kingsley Opuwari Manuel","tags":["christianity","church","church-leadership","church-ministry","growing-churches","pastor","pastoral-ministry"],"id":18841,"author_id":"Kingsley+Opuwari+Manuel"},{"text":"Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.","author":"Wayne Cordeiro","tags":["isolation","jesus-christ","pastor","pastoral","pastoral-ministry","refuge","solitude"],"id":19380,"author_id":"Wayne+Cordeiro"},{"text":"Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date your PASTOR to know he can be your MENTOR before you give him your ears! Test the Spirits...And don't be a religious fanatic!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["boyfriend","church","convinced","courtship","date","fanatic","fanatics","girlfriend","israelmore-ayivor","lovers","make-love","marriage","marry","men-of-god","mentor","pastor","preacher","relationship","religious-fanatic","sheep-on-wolves-cloth","test-the-spirits"],"id":30120,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Pastor Face Your Business” When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["behind","business","face","i","just","mean","must","pastor","people","preach","pulpit","say","stay","that","they","this","when","your"],"id":45703,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all of this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf. For reasons I will explore in the conclusion, pastors are, as a rule, reluctant to teach what they learned about the Bible in seminary.","author":"Bart D. Ehrman","tags":["christianity","church","god","ministry","pastor","religion","seminary"],"id":60413,"author_id":"Bart+D.+Ehrman"},{"text":"Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your moments!","author":"David Grachek","tags":["church","inspirational","pastor","religion","religious"],"id":64938,"author_id":"David+Grachek"},{"text":"It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["business-leaders","church-leaders","contagious","influence","influencial","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","inspiring","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leading","leads","motivate","motivation","motivator","pastor","potential","self-leader","self-leaders","self-leadership","share","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership"],"id":70940,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-pastor","atheist-philosophers","atheist-priest","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","church","clergy","clergy","congregation","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","minister","pastor","pastors","pastors","priest","priest","priests","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":71489,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["commander","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","pastor","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","servant","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness"],"id":74953,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","grey-hair","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":75011,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":78,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}