The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Gospel has to be the norm.
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.