The source of Authority

"Authority does not come from position in life or worldly power. Rather authority comes from relationship with Jesus Christ. It is self-authenticating."
                             - Nicky Gumbel -

"In ministry, private purity is the source of public power"
                          - Rick Warren

"The clothes of authentic discipleship are not the purple robes of an emperor, but the crown of thorns of our Saviour. It is about a cross, not a throne. It is a life laid down for others."

Nicky Gumbel, writing on Mark 10:43-45

My favourite quote

The Music of Ministry

"The pastors of God's people are called to help the Church enthral the world with the sound of Christ. Sometimes they are like the person who sweeps the floor...ready for the performance. Other times they are like the restorer, who skilfully repairs the instruments when they have been damaged. All of the time they are like the conductor whose overriding passion is to draw the best sound from each person, and to bring the sounds of each uniquely gifted person into an ordered whole, so that together, in time and in tune, the people of God can play the score of God's mercy, truth and goodness, to a world battered by its own noise but starved of the sound of God."

- C.Cocksworth & R.Brown
Excerpt from "Being a Priest Today"