“When the Lord dispenses rewards, or crowns, we will see that it will not be a mercenary affair at all. No one in heaven will be rewarded with a chest full of doubloons” (Why Ministers Must Be Men, p. 57).
Maybe Just Talking . . .
“Again, note the need for high levels of courage. If we are preaching in such a way that courage is not necessary, then what are we doing” (Why Ministers Must Be Men, p. 56).
Knocked Down and Picked Up by the Same Thing
“This means that a minister must not be the kind of person who apologizes for breathing. Every man called to the ministry shares Paul’s sentiment on the one hand — who is sufficient for these things (2 Cor. 2:16)? On the other hand, he must be the kind of man who tells these sentiments of …
Not Macho, Masculine
“Masculine leadership is not the same thing as machismo. The apostle Paul, one who demanded that ministers be masculine men, and who labored to provide a model for such men in their ministry, compared his manner of ministry to a woman breastfeeding [1 Thess. 2:7-8]. Gentleness in appropriate ways and places is not effeminate” (Why …
No Vain Pomp
“Paul avoided vain pomp, and so must we. And if a man wants to go into the ministry because he thinks the robes are fabulous, then we have a related problem” (Why Ministers Must be Men, p. 52).
Preaching Under An Open Heaven
“Consequently, the preacher of the word must not answer to his audience. He answers to the one who commissioned him, that is, Christ. The evaluation of whether a message is right is not to be found primarily in the mortal audience, but rather in the eternal audience. This means that we need men who know …
And It Doesn’t Matter What Kind of Knife You Use
“A brave minister is the kind of man who would be willing to charge Hell with a bucket of water. But all too often, to modify a comment once made by Teddy Roosevelt, when it comes to contemporary ministers, we find ourselves thinking that we could carve more courageous ministers out of a banana” (Why …
Loving the Divisions God Made
“In the world created by the triune God of Scripture, the boundaries don’t blur, like a watercolor left out in the rain. God divides, and he loves to call those divisions good. God created heaven and earth, which created the fundamental division between that which is God and that which is not God. The gulf …
Not to Mention the Ecclesiastical Variant
“While falling, a number of people have the temporary sensation of absolute freedom, and they seek to use that freedom in the creation and pursuit of various sexualities. And that is why we are now dealing metrosexuals, sodomites, catamites, lesbians, virtual perverts, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals — not the mention the ecclesiastical variants, the lesbyterians. …
And I Mean All the Furniture
“This is why the question of women’s ordination is emphatically not about a simple matter of including women in Christian ministry. It is not a simple matter of rearranging the furniture. This is about redefining the nature of Christian ministry, in order to make it compatible with another religion entirely. And this is why, once …