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Being all things to all people, if this is our ministerial goal, ought to begin with being all ourselves to God who approves us, qualifies us, commissions us, and loves us.
Jared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
However the Lord has gifted you, whatever tools you have at your disposal, steward them toward the impression of awe, the air of redemption, a foretaste of glory. Do not write in such a way as to make your name great, but because his name is. You don’t have to write explicitly Christian material for this to be true. You simply have to write as an e
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Thank God for Jesus!
Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
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Philip Graham Ryken • Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)
A plurality of elders can be an example to the congregation of unity of mind and heart despite differences. Pastors are not appointed to a church primarily to lead in the instruction of skills and the dissemination of information; they are appointed to a church primarily to lead in Christ-following.
Jared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
I remind myself and my church often that a message of grace may attract people, but a culture of grace will keep them. They want to know—we want to know, the Lord wants to know—that what is being preached has sunk down through the hardness of our skulls and entered the bloodstream.