Sublime

Mature guidance. If only a preacher decides what parishioners should do, they will not grow. Nothing creates and perpetuates spiritual babies more than pastors who will not allow people to come to their own conclusions and take responsibility for their own actions.

there can be no real understanding of these truths unless one identifies the Bible’s gospel message as the only means to conversion (see John 3; Romans 3–5).

one cannot help feeling that there was a loss of the genius of Calvin’s life project of producing commentaries on the text of Scripture and developing and perfecting the Institutes as a companion to Scripture.

John the Baptist.

Any ministry or church that fails to raise up sons and daughters is not a true New Testament ministry.

We catechize because we must. For catechesis is both a very biblical idea and a faithful practice

of the church through the ages. Where wise catechesis has flourished, the church has flourished. Where it has been neglected, the church has floundered. We catechize in obedience to the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ and in imitation of the L

adopting the mind-set of Paul, who said, “I don’t think about what would be good for me but about what would be good for many people so that they might be saved.”