We believe that every member of the body has a ministry, and it is by each
one knowing his place and his functions in the body, and working effectively
therein, that the growth of all is promoted. On the other hand it is most
disastrous for anyone to mistake his line of things, since he not only fails as
to his own work but hinders others in theirs. May the Lord give us grace to
know our niche and fill it! And may we learn to be content with a very
little and a very humble niche. Someone has said, "I never was truly happy
until I ceased to wish to be great." This is a wholesome saying and one which
we would do well to ponder. It is immensely important for each one to
know his own proper work. A man's whole life may be full of mistakes
simply owing to his having never really fallen into his divinely appointed line
of things. This is very deplorable. Not only does it involve a loss of time and
labor on his own part, but it also of necessity interferes with the work of
others.
May the Lord guide and keep us! And may our earnest breathing ever be:
"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
May God keep His servants humble and dependent! We are increasingly
convinced that the quiet, shady, retiring path is the best and safest for the
Christian workman. There is always immense danger when a man or his
work becomes well known. When the fame of Israel was being spread
abroad among the Canaanites, the Lord commanded Joshua to "make sharp
knives and circumcise the people" (Joshua 5: 2). Nature must be put in the
place of death and kept there.
An evangelist is one who possesses a bona fide gift from Christ, the Head of
the Church. If a man does not have this gift he is not an evangelist, though
able to speak ever so fluently. We believe there is one feature which invariably
characterizes a true evangelist-- an intense love for souls and a thirsting
for their salvation so Christ may be magnified. The glory of Christ must
ever be the ruling object with every workman, whatever be his gift. We
believe the evangelist ought to look for results and confidently expect them,
just as the farmer looks for the fruit of his labor. He may have to exercise
"long patience," but he should fully count on God for results. An evangelist is,
of necessity, more or less a traveler. The world is his sphere, but the Lord
will ever guide those who simply wait on Him, having no will of their
own, no personal aim or object.
As to giving up our calling, provided it be a godly one, it is a most serious
matter indeed, demanding grave consideration and most distinct guidance
from God. If He calls us to this, He will most surely sustain us, for He will be
no man's debtor. He never fails a trusting heart. But we must be very clear
indeed as to the divine call, else we shall break down. We have known several
who gave up their occupation to give themselves to the Lord's work, but the
sequel proved in a very humiliating way that they were not called of God to
enter upon that line of things. But no one can be a rule for another. Each one
must walk before his Lord in this as in all besides. He is a most gracious
Master, and even though we make mistakes, we can cast ourselves in fullest
confidence on His unfailing goodness. And where the heart is true to Him,
all is sure to come right in the end.
May He guide and bless you, dear friend, and use you abundantly according
to the earnest desire of your heart!
Each one must act before the Lord and be guided of Him as to the best
method of working. As a rule, it is the best way to study Scripture apart from
the idea of having to preach. It is not good always to be reading for others;
one is in danger of falling into the mere business of sermon-making which is
very withering to the soul. It is well to go to the Word on the principle
set forth in John 7: 37, "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and
drink." We only speak of the principle, not the strict application of the
passage. We should go ourselves to the fountain of Holy Scripture, not
to draw for others, but to drink for ourselves. Then we shall be always
full, always ready for the Master's use.
Far be it from us to encourage anyone in a random, haphazard way of
speaking on Scripture. We believe such a habit to be ruinous to the soul
of the speaker and worse than wearisome to the souls of the hearers.
The apostle's advice to his son Timothy is important for us all, "Meditate
upon these things; give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may
appear to all. Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine; continue in
them; for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear
thee" (1 Tim. 4: 15-16). The "profiting" is sure to "appear" if the habit of
meditation is diligently cultivated, but if one goes to a meeting with a ser-
mon already prepared, it may not be the thing which the Lord would have
spoken at all. No doubt, the Lord can and does guide His servants in
study and preparation beforehand. He can fix their minds upon the
right subject and teach the right method of handling it. He is so good
that we can count on Him with fullest confidence in all things. But we
have to watch against the habit of making ourselves up for an occasion on
the one hand, and against idleness and indifference on the other. May the
Lord bless you and help you in your work!
A special application of Ezekiel 34 is to the shepherds of Israel, though
surely it conveys a solemn and needed lesson to all who undertake the
work of a pastor in the midst of God's people.
In 1 Corinthians 13 the apostle sets forth the great motive spring of all true
and effective ministry -- love. In 1 Corinthians 12 you have the ground of
ministry; in 1 Corinthians 13 the motive spring; and in 1 Corinthians 14 the
object. First, membership in the body; secondly, love; thirdly, edification.
Taken from CHM's short papers, written in the 1800s, to his readers.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"We really want evangelists. A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a
true pastor. Alas! how rare are both! The two are closely connected. The
evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work
of each lies very near the heart of Christ-- the Divine Evangelist and Pastor;
but it is with the former we have now more immediately to do--to encourage
him in his work, and to warn him against the temptation to turn aside from it.
We cannot afford to lose a single ambassador just now, or to have a single
preacher silent." ~ CHM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Thyself and The Doctrine." - A Word for the Workman.
By C. H. Mackintosh.
"Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine [or teaching]; continue in them:
for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee" (1 Tim.
4: 16).
These are solemn and weighty words for all those who labour in the Word and
doctrine. They were addressed by the inspired apostle to his beloved son
Timothy, and contain most precious instruction for every one who is called of
God to minister in the assembly, or to preach the gospel. It is assuredly a very
high and holy privilege to be permitted to take part in such a ministry; but it
involves a most serious responsibility; and the passage just quoted sets
before the workman two deeply important duties-- yea, absolutely essential
duties, to which he must give his diligent, constant, prayerful attention, if he
would be an efficient workman in the Church of God -- "a good minister of
Jesus Christ." He must take heed to himself; and he must take heed to the
teaching:
1. And first, then, let us consider the solemn clause, "Take heed to thyself."
We cannot adequately set forth the moral importance of this. It is, of course,
important for all Christians; but for the workman preeminently so; for to such
it is here particularly addressed. He, above all, will need to take heed to
himself. He must guard the state of his heart, the state of his conscience,
his whole inward man. He must keep himself pure. His thoughts, his
affections, his spirit, his temper, his tongue, must all be kept under the
holy control of the Spirit and Word of God. He must wear the girdle of
truth and the breastplate of righteousness. His moral condition and his
practical walk must answer to the truth ministered, else the enemy will
most assuredly get an advantage over him.
The teacher ought to be the living exponent of what he teaches. At least
this should be his honest, earnest, constant aim. He should ever keep this holy
standard before "the eyes of his heart." Alas, the best will fail and come short;
but where the heart is true, the conscience tender, and the fear of God and
the love of Christ have their due place, the workman will never be
satisfied with anything short of the divine standard for his inward state
and his outward walk. It will ever be his earnest desire to exhibit the practical
effect of his teaching, and to be "an example of the believers, in word, in
conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity" (1 Tim. 4: 12). With this he
should ever remember that "we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord; and ourselves your servants, for Jesus' sake."
We must never for a moment lose sight of the weighty moral fact that the
teacher ought to live the truth which he teaches. It is morally dangerous,
in the extreme, for a man to teach in public what he does not live in
private -- dangerous for himself, most damaging to the testimony, and
injurious to those with whom he has to do. What can be more deplorable
or humiliating than for a man to be characterised by contradicting in his
personal history and in his domestic life the truth which he utters in the
public assembly? It is simply fearful, and must inevitably lead to the most
disastrous results.
Hence, then, may it be the deep-seated, earnest purpose and aim of all those
who minister in the Word and doctrine to feed upon the precious truth of
God; to make it their own; to live and move and have their being in the
very atmosphere of it; to have the inward man strengthened and formed
by it; to have it dwelling richly in them, that thus it may flow out in living
power, savour, unction and fullness to others.
It is a very poor, yea, a very dangerous thing to sit down to the Word of
God as a mere student, for the purpose of preparing lectures or sermons for
other people. Nothing can be more deadening or withering to the soul.
Mere intellectual traffic in the truth of God, storing up certain doctrines, views
and principles in the memory, and giving them out with a certain fluency of
speech, is at once deluding and demoralising. We may be drawing water for
other people, and all the while be like rusty pipes ourselves. How miser-
able this is! "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink," said
our blessed Lord. He did not say "draw." The true spring and power of all
ministry in the Church will ever be found in drinking for our own souls,
not in drawing for others. "He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath
said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." We must abide
close to the eternal fountain, the heart of Christ; drink deeply, drink
continually. Thus our own souls shall be refreshed and enriched; rivers shall
flow for the refreshment of others, and streams of praise ascend to the throne
and to the heart of God by Jesus Christ. This is Christian ministry-- yea,
this is Christianity; all else is utterly worthless.
2. We shall now dwell for a few moments on the second point in our subject,
namely, the doctrine, or teaching-- for such is the true force of the original
word. And oh, how much is involved in this! "Take heed to the teaching."
Solemn admonition! What care is needed! What holy watchfulness! What
earnest, prayerful, constant waiting upon God for the right thing to say,
and the right way to say it! God only knows the state and the need of
souls. He knows their capacity. We do not. We may be offering "strong
meat" to those who can only bear "milk," and thus do positive mischief.
"If any man speak, let him speak as oracles of God." He does not say,
according to the oracles of God." A man may rise and speak for an hour in
the assembly, and every word he says may be in strict accordance with the
letter of Scripture, and yet he may not at all speak as an oracle of God— as
God's mouthpiece to the people. He may minister truth, but not the needed
truth, at the time.
How solemn is all this! How it makes us feel the seriousness of the apostle's
admonition, "Take heed to the teaching"! How it sets before us the urgent
need of self-emptied dependence upon the power and guidance of the
Holy Ghost! Here lies the precious secret of all effective ministry, whether
oral or written. We may talk for hours, and write volumes, — and talk and
write nothing unscriptural, -- but if it be not in the power of the Spirit, our
words will prove but as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, and our
volumes as so much waste paper. We want to lie much at the Master's feet,
to drink deeply into His Spirit, to be in fellowship with His heart of love for
the precious lambs and sheep of His flock. Then shall we be in a condition
of soul to give the portion of meat in due season.
He alone knows exactly what His beloved people really need at all times.
We may perhaps feel deeply interested in some special line of truth, and we
may judge it to be the right thing for the assembly; but this might be quite a
mistake. It is not the truth which interests us, but the truth which the
assembly needs, that should be given out; and for this we should ever
wait upon our gracious Lord. We should look simply and earnestly to
Him, and say, "Lord, what wouldest Thou have me to say to Thy beloved
people? Give me the suited message for them." Then would He use us as His
channels; and the truth would flow down from His loving heart into our hearts,
and forth from us, in the power of His Spirit, into the hearts of His people.
Oh that it were thus with all who speak and write for the Church of God!
What results we might look for-- what power!-- what manifest progress
in the divine life! The true interests of the flock of Christ would then be
thought of in all that was spoken or written. Nothing equivocal, nothing
strange or startling, would then be sent forth. Nothing but what is sound and
seasonable would flow from the lips or the pen. Sound speech that cannot be
condemned, that which is good for the use of edifying, would alone be sent
forth.
May every beloved workman throughout the length and breadth of the Church
of God take home to himself the apostolic admonition, "Take heed to thyself,
and to the teaching . . . for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and
them that hear thee"!
"Of these things put them in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the
Lord, not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion
of the hearers. Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth." (2 Tim. 2: 14-15).
~CHM
Compiled and Modified for web by Cobblestone Road Ministries
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"No pastor can ever become monotonous and repetitious, who
fills his mind and heart with the Word of God." ~Baptist Quarterly 1886
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FURTHER READING:
Ambassadors For Christ
The Sin Of Flattery - Beware! - A Must-read!
Warning: Trafficking In Unfelt Truths
Plagiarism Among Preachers and Swapping Sermons?
Cease Not To Teach And Preach Jesus Christ
Good Christian Quotes By Famous Preachers and Expositors
Popular Preachers Passing Out Candy On The Way To Destruction
Church Apostasy - Living In The Last Days
The Heavy Burden of The Purpose-Driven Life
Famous Preacher Quotes
one knowing his place and his functions in the body, and working effectively
therein, that the growth of all is promoted. On the other hand it is most
disastrous for anyone to mistake his line of things, since he not only fails as
to his own work but hinders others in theirs. May the Lord give us grace to
know our niche and fill it! And may we learn to be content with a very
little and a very humble niche. Someone has said, "I never was truly happy
until I ceased to wish to be great." This is a wholesome saying and one which
we would do well to ponder. It is immensely important for each one to
know his own proper work. A man's whole life may be full of mistakes
simply owing to his having never really fallen into his divinely appointed line
of things. This is very deplorable. Not only does it involve a loss of time and
labor on his own part, but it also of necessity interferes with the work of
others.
May the Lord guide and keep us! And may our earnest breathing ever be:
"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
May God keep His servants humble and dependent! We are increasingly
convinced that the quiet, shady, retiring path is the best and safest for the
Christian workman. There is always immense danger when a man or his
work becomes well known. When the fame of Israel was being spread
abroad among the Canaanites, the Lord commanded Joshua to "make sharp
knives and circumcise the people" (Joshua 5: 2). Nature must be put in the
place of death and kept there.
An evangelist is one who possesses a bona fide gift from Christ, the Head of
the Church. If a man does not have this gift he is not an evangelist, though
able to speak ever so fluently. We believe there is one feature which invariably
characterizes a true evangelist-- an intense love for souls and a thirsting
for their salvation so Christ may be magnified. The glory of Christ must
ever be the ruling object with every workman, whatever be his gift. We
believe the evangelist ought to look for results and confidently expect them,
just as the farmer looks for the fruit of his labor. He may have to exercise
"long patience," but he should fully count on God for results. An evangelist is,
of necessity, more or less a traveler. The world is his sphere, but the Lord
will ever guide those who simply wait on Him, having no will of their
own, no personal aim or object.
As to giving up our calling, provided it be a godly one, it is a most serious
matter indeed, demanding grave consideration and most distinct guidance
from God. If He calls us to this, He will most surely sustain us, for He will be
no man's debtor. He never fails a trusting heart. But we must be very clear
indeed as to the divine call, else we shall break down. We have known several
who gave up their occupation to give themselves to the Lord's work, but the
sequel proved in a very humiliating way that they were not called of God to
enter upon that line of things. But no one can be a rule for another. Each one
must walk before his Lord in this as in all besides. He is a most gracious
Master, and even though we make mistakes, we can cast ourselves in fullest
confidence on His unfailing goodness. And where the heart is true to Him,
all is sure to come right in the end.
May He guide and bless you, dear friend, and use you abundantly according
to the earnest desire of your heart!
Each one must act before the Lord and be guided of Him as to the best
method of working. As a rule, it is the best way to study Scripture apart from
the idea of having to preach. It is not good always to be reading for others;
one is in danger of falling into the mere business of sermon-making which is
very withering to the soul. It is well to go to the Word on the principle
set forth in John 7: 37, "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and
drink." We only speak of the principle, not the strict application of the
passage. We should go ourselves to the fountain of Holy Scripture, not
to draw for others, but to drink for ourselves. Then we shall be always
full, always ready for the Master's use.
Far be it from us to encourage anyone in a random, haphazard way of
speaking on Scripture. We believe such a habit to be ruinous to the soul
of the speaker and worse than wearisome to the souls of the hearers.
The apostle's advice to his son Timothy is important for us all, "Meditate
upon these things; give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may
appear to all. Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine; continue in
them; for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear
thee" (1 Tim. 4: 15-16). The "profiting" is sure to "appear" if the habit of
meditation is diligently cultivated, but if one goes to a meeting with a ser-
mon already prepared, it may not be the thing which the Lord would have
spoken at all. No doubt, the Lord can and does guide His servants in
study and preparation beforehand. He can fix their minds upon the
right subject and teach the right method of handling it. He is so good
that we can count on Him with fullest confidence in all things. But we
have to watch against the habit of making ourselves up for an occasion on
the one hand, and against idleness and indifference on the other. May the
Lord bless you and help you in your work!
A special application of Ezekiel 34 is to the shepherds of Israel, though
surely it conveys a solemn and needed lesson to all who undertake the
work of a pastor in the midst of God's people.
In 1 Corinthians 13 the apostle sets forth the great motive spring of all true
and effective ministry -- love. In 1 Corinthians 12 you have the ground of
ministry; in 1 Corinthians 13 the motive spring; and in 1 Corinthians 14 the
object. First, membership in the body; secondly, love; thirdly, edification.
Taken from CHM's short papers, written in the 1800s, to his readers.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"We really want evangelists. A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a
true pastor. Alas! how rare are both! The two are closely connected. The
evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work
of each lies very near the heart of Christ-- the Divine Evangelist and Pastor;
but it is with the former we have now more immediately to do--to encourage
him in his work, and to warn him against the temptation to turn aside from it.
We cannot afford to lose a single ambassador just now, or to have a single
preacher silent." ~ CHM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Thyself and The Doctrine." - A Word for the Workman.
By C. H. Mackintosh.
"Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine [or teaching]; continue in them:
for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee" (1 Tim.
4: 16).
These are solemn and weighty words for all those who labour in the Word and
doctrine. They were addressed by the inspired apostle to his beloved son
Timothy, and contain most precious instruction for every one who is called of
God to minister in the assembly, or to preach the gospel. It is assuredly a very
high and holy privilege to be permitted to take part in such a ministry; but it
involves a most serious responsibility; and the passage just quoted sets
before the workman two deeply important duties-- yea, absolutely essential
duties, to which he must give his diligent, constant, prayerful attention, if he
would be an efficient workman in the Church of God -- "a good minister of
Jesus Christ." He must take heed to himself; and he must take heed to the
teaching:
1. And first, then, let us consider the solemn clause, "Take heed to thyself."
We cannot adequately set forth the moral importance of this. It is, of course,
important for all Christians; but for the workman preeminently so; for to such
it is here particularly addressed. He, above all, will need to take heed to
himself. He must guard the state of his heart, the state of his conscience,
his whole inward man. He must keep himself pure. His thoughts, his
affections, his spirit, his temper, his tongue, must all be kept under the
holy control of the Spirit and Word of God. He must wear the girdle of
truth and the breastplate of righteousness. His moral condition and his
practical walk must answer to the truth ministered, else the enemy will
most assuredly get an advantage over him.
The teacher ought to be the living exponent of what he teaches. At least
this should be his honest, earnest, constant aim. He should ever keep this holy
standard before "the eyes of his heart." Alas, the best will fail and come short;
but where the heart is true, the conscience tender, and the fear of God and
the love of Christ have their due place, the workman will never be
satisfied with anything short of the divine standard for his inward state
and his outward walk. It will ever be his earnest desire to exhibit the practical
effect of his teaching, and to be "an example of the believers, in word, in
conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity" (1 Tim. 4: 12). With this he
should ever remember that "we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the
Lord; and ourselves your servants, for Jesus' sake."
We must never for a moment lose sight of the weighty moral fact that the
teacher ought to live the truth which he teaches. It is morally dangerous,
in the extreme, for a man to teach in public what he does not live in
private -- dangerous for himself, most damaging to the testimony, and
injurious to those with whom he has to do. What can be more deplorable
or humiliating than for a man to be characterised by contradicting in his
personal history and in his domestic life the truth which he utters in the
public assembly? It is simply fearful, and must inevitably lead to the most
disastrous results.
Hence, then, may it be the deep-seated, earnest purpose and aim of all those
who minister in the Word and doctrine to feed upon the precious truth of
God; to make it their own; to live and move and have their being in the
very atmosphere of it; to have the inward man strengthened and formed
by it; to have it dwelling richly in them, that thus it may flow out in living
power, savour, unction and fullness to others.
It is a very poor, yea, a very dangerous thing to sit down to the Word of
God as a mere student, for the purpose of preparing lectures or sermons for
other people. Nothing can be more deadening or withering to the soul.
Mere intellectual traffic in the truth of God, storing up certain doctrines, views
and principles in the memory, and giving them out with a certain fluency of
speech, is at once deluding and demoralising. We may be drawing water for
other people, and all the while be like rusty pipes ourselves. How miser-
able this is! "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink," said
our blessed Lord. He did not say "draw." The true spring and power of all
ministry in the Church will ever be found in drinking for our own souls,
not in drawing for others. "He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath
said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." We must abide
close to the eternal fountain, the heart of Christ; drink deeply, drink
continually. Thus our own souls shall be refreshed and enriched; rivers shall
flow for the refreshment of others, and streams of praise ascend to the throne
and to the heart of God by Jesus Christ. This is Christian ministry-- yea,
this is Christianity; all else is utterly worthless.
2. We shall now dwell for a few moments on the second point in our subject,
namely, the doctrine, or teaching-- for such is the true force of the original
word. And oh, how much is involved in this! "Take heed to the teaching."
Solemn admonition! What care is needed! What holy watchfulness! What
earnest, prayerful, constant waiting upon God for the right thing to say,
and the right way to say it! God only knows the state and the need of
souls. He knows their capacity. We do not. We may be offering "strong
meat" to those who can only bear "milk," and thus do positive mischief.
"If any man speak, let him speak as oracles of God." He does not say,
according to the oracles of God." A man may rise and speak for an hour in
the assembly, and every word he says may be in strict accordance with the
letter of Scripture, and yet he may not at all speak as an oracle of God— as
God's mouthpiece to the people. He may minister truth, but not the needed
truth, at the time.
How solemn is all this! How it makes us feel the seriousness of the apostle's
admonition, "Take heed to the teaching"! How it sets before us the urgent
need of self-emptied dependence upon the power and guidance of the
Holy Ghost! Here lies the precious secret of all effective ministry, whether
oral or written. We may talk for hours, and write volumes, — and talk and
write nothing unscriptural, -- but if it be not in the power of the Spirit, our
words will prove but as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, and our
volumes as so much waste paper. We want to lie much at the Master's feet,
to drink deeply into His Spirit, to be in fellowship with His heart of love for
the precious lambs and sheep of His flock. Then shall we be in a condition
of soul to give the portion of meat in due season.
He alone knows exactly what His beloved people really need at all times.
We may perhaps feel deeply interested in some special line of truth, and we
may judge it to be the right thing for the assembly; but this might be quite a
mistake. It is not the truth which interests us, but the truth which the
assembly needs, that should be given out; and for this we should ever
wait upon our gracious Lord. We should look simply and earnestly to
Him, and say, "Lord, what wouldest Thou have me to say to Thy beloved
people? Give me the suited message for them." Then would He use us as His
channels; and the truth would flow down from His loving heart into our hearts,
and forth from us, in the power of His Spirit, into the hearts of His people.
Oh that it were thus with all who speak and write for the Church of God!
What results we might look for-- what power!-- what manifest progress
in the divine life! The true interests of the flock of Christ would then be
thought of in all that was spoken or written. Nothing equivocal, nothing
strange or startling, would then be sent forth. Nothing but what is sound and
seasonable would flow from the lips or the pen. Sound speech that cannot be
condemned, that which is good for the use of edifying, would alone be sent
forth.
May every beloved workman throughout the length and breadth of the Church
of God take home to himself the apostolic admonition, "Take heed to thyself,
and to the teaching . . . for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and
them that hear thee"!
"Of these things put them in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the
Lord, not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion
of the hearers. Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth." (2 Tim. 2: 14-15).
~CHM
Compiled and Modified for web by Cobblestone Road Ministries
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"No pastor can ever become monotonous and repetitious, who
fills his mind and heart with the Word of God." ~Baptist Quarterly 1886
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FURTHER READING:
Ambassadors For Christ
The Sin Of Flattery - Beware! - A Must-read!
Warning: Trafficking In Unfelt Truths
Plagiarism Among Preachers and Swapping Sermons?
Cease Not To Teach And Preach Jesus Christ
Good Christian Quotes By Famous Preachers and Expositors
Popular Preachers Passing Out Candy On The Way To Destruction
Church Apostasy - Living In The Last Days
The Heavy Burden of The Purpose-Driven Life
Famous Preacher Quotes
| MINISTRY AND SERVICE Advice For Those In Ministry By Nineteenth Century Expositor, C.H. Mackintosh |
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