Most ministries in our church have not begun with a bright idea in a pastors’ meeting. We usually don’t say, "Let’s start a street outreach," and then go recruit laypeople to staff it. We have learned over the years to let God birth something in people who are spiritually sensitive, who begin to pray and feel a calling. Then they come to us. "We want to start such-and -such," they say- and the ministry gets going and lasts. Discouragement, complications, and other attacks by the enemy don’t wash it out.
— Jim Cymbala (b. 1943), Pastor und Bestsellerautor
Topics: Guidance & God's Will, Service & Love of Neighbour, Church & Congregation
Occasions: For Reflection
Jim Cymbala
Jim Cymbala ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Pastor und Autor, der seit 1971 die Gemeinde The Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York City leitet. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch sein Buch „Frischer Wind, frisches Feuer“ sowie seinen Fokus auf beharrliches gemeinschaftliches Gebet und das Wirken des Heiligen Geistes. Für Bibelleser vermitteln seine Texte Impulse für eine engagierte Gebetspraxis, während konservative Theologen mitunter eine Bevorzugung subjektiver Erfahrungen gegenüber der Schriftauslegung kritisieren.
All quotes by Jim Cymbala (10)
Blaise Pascal
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.
Craig Groeschel
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
John Henry Newman
Chance is the pseudonym God chooses when he wants to remain incognito.
Albert Schweitzer
What was not in my plan lay in God's plan.
Edith Stein
Outside the will of God, There's nothing I want. Inside the will of God there's nothing I fear.
A.W. Tozer