Prospective Ministers?

Are you considering, or training for, the preaching ministry?  Then, get to know as much as you can about this balanced biblical understanding of the Gospel message.  Let that understanding dwell richly in your heart, and it will proceed faithfully from your lips.  See this as the most liberating understanding of the Gospel to be found in Christendom.  For this is the authentic Gospel for a lost and needy world.  When you go out to preach, be convinced that you have something real and genuine to tell them, and to offer them and that is there for them, a message that promises eternal salvation to ALL who believe. 

To all present, I say this: pray that God will own and bless his own Gospel mightily, as it goes out week by week.  Pray that in your church, there will be at least one clear evangelistic sermon each week – I think it was Lloyd-Jones who advocated that.  Make it your responsibility to bring those you have befriended in under the sound of this life-changing Gospel, dare I say it - destiny-changing Gospel message.  Because all are lost and perishing, all need to be found and saved.  Because God’s wrath burns incessantly against every sinner, every sinner needs the protection and covering of the precious blood of Christ.  The really goodnews is that God has done enough in the death of his Son to save every sinner, and he will save everyone who comes to him.  So there is now no excuse for anyone not to become a Christian.  The door of mercy is wide open.  The Saviour’s arms are wide open.  He calls everyone to come to him, and whoever comes to him in faith believing, he will accept and save.

That’s our message.  And what a message that is, men and women!  And what a Saviour you and I have!  He has commissioned us to take that message to the ends of the earth.  And what a privilege it is to be called by God to preach a message of that nature, and a message of that dynamic that can save souls, that can change lives, and that can guarantee the safe arrival of everyone who has embraced that message, to heaven.  It can take them there, because it is God’s way of reconciliation.