"Believe it, brethren, God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was justified, sanctified man, and consequently faithful in his Master's work" (Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 54).
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Monday, September 30, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Solemn Work of Christian Ministry
"The solemn work with which the Christian ministry concerns itself demands a man's all, and that all at its best. To engage in it half-heartedly is an insult to God and man" (C. H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, vi).
Monday, March 18, 2013
Ministers' Wisdom
"To be wise to win souls is the wisdom ministers should possess" (C. H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, vi).
Saturday, February 16, 2013
High View of Preaching
"No less than their biblical counterparts, contemporary preachers are called to be channels of the word of God. The metaphors of herald and ambassador apply as much to them as they did to the apostles. This high view of preaching came to clear expression in the Reformed Second Helvetic Confession of 1566: Praedicatio verbi Dei est verbum Dei (the preaching of the word of God is the word of God)."
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"This high view of preaching can never be the boast of preachers, of course; it can only underscore their responsibility. For with the prophets we noticed that their authority did not reside, ultimately, in their calling or office but in the words they spoke, whether they were from the Lord. So it is with preachers today: they have a word from the Lord, but only if they speak the Lord's word. The only norm we have for judging whether preachers speak the word of the Lord is the Bible" (Sidney Greidanus, The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature, 8-9).
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"This high view of preaching can never be the boast of preachers, of course; it can only underscore their responsibility. For with the prophets we noticed that their authority did not reside, ultimately, in their calling or office but in the words they spoke, whether they were from the Lord. So it is with preachers today: they have a word from the Lord, but only if they speak the Lord's word. The only norm we have for judging whether preachers speak the word of the Lord is the Bible" (Sidney Greidanus, The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature, 8-9).
Sunday, September 2, 2012
The Minister as Mirror
"As God is loving, as God is paternal, as God moves in all gentleness, so too should the minister mirror all that, so that not only the words but also the life of the minister reflect God's goodness as in a mirror" (Thomas J. Davis, This is My Body: The Presence of Christ in Reformation Thought (Baker Academic, 2008), 125).
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