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Full Title

Preacher and Prayer

Author(s)

E. M. Bounds

Edition
ISBN

9781515454533, 9781515454526

Publisher

Wilder Publications

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PDF and EPUB

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Three things make a divine–prayer, meditation, temptation. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry as he did me, to teach you to pray. Remember Luther’s maxim, “To have prayed well is to have studied well.” Get your text from God, your thoughts, your words.

Recreation to a minister must be as whetting is with the mower–that is, to be used only so far as is necessary for his work. May a physician in plague-time take any more relaxation or recreation than is necessary for his life, when so many are expecting his help in a case of life and death? Will you stand by and see sinners gasping under the pangs of death, and say: “God doth not require me to make myself a drudge to save them?” Is this the voice of ministerial or Christian compassion or rather of sensual laziness and diabolical cruelty?

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Full Title

Preacher and Prayer

Author(s)

Edward M. Bounds

Edition
ISBN

9781479460298

Publisher

Wildside Press

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PDF and EPUB

Description

We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God’s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.