Trip Lee Quotes

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

I think there's more women that watch me than men, but I don't look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

It's not so easy to apply to today's society things that were written thousands of years ago. But that's exactly the job of a minister - to make the teaching of the Bible relevant.

Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.

I am grateful for the men and women who pastor, who lead in churches across our country. Ultimately, their role of loving people and seeing hearts changed is probably the greatest calling.

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.

When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.