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Alexander Arrell retweeted
A single assembly model moves churches toward greater catholicity, which in turn encourages evangelism and extends God’s kingdom.
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Alexander Arrell retweeted
Very grateful to @DrJimHamilton for two inspiring lectures on typology hosted @LondonSeminary this morning.
Thank you for your love for the Word (and your plug for biblical languages!)
Thank you to the Grace Baptist Association SE for organising this.
Alexander Arrell retweeted
Grateful to have Spurgeon the Pastor in my hand! We know Spurgeon the preacher, the author, the philanthropist, the controversialist... But do we know Spurgeon the pastor? With all he did, we can easily forget that he was fundamentally the pastor of a local church.
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How does a productive pastor not burn out? I didn’t expect to find the answer from John Gill.
Gill didn’t work an insane schedule. He pastored from age 21 to 74 and never burnt out. Here’s what I learned from his life.
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‘If ever the story of any private man’s adventures in the world were worth making public…the editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this man’s life exceed all that is to be found…The story is told with modesty, seriousness, and a religious application…
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‘To know one’s self is the way to self-conquest, the grandest of all victories. The world looks out for a lofty, ambitious, stern, self-sufficient man, and says he bears himself like a king: and yet, in very truth, the real kings among their fellows are meek and lowly…’[1/4]
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…washed the disciples’ feet, those who in quietness lived for God and their fellow-men, unostentatious because conscious of their failures, unselfish because self was held in low esteem, humble and devout because their own spiritual poverty drove them out of themselves… [3/4]
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…and led them to rest alone upon the Lord. The time shall come when glitter and gewgaw will go for what they are worth, and then shall the poor in spirit be seen to have had the kingdom.’ @dailyspurgeon @Spurgeon_ @ReadingSpurgeon MTPS-3156 [4/4]
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‘Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set,[…] [1/2]
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@dailyspurgeon on the star in Matthew 2: “It is a small thing to shine, but it is a great thing to draw. Any cast-away may be brilliant; but only the real saint will be attractive for Jesus. I would not pray to be an orator, but I do pray to be a soul-winner. Do not aim… [1/3]
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…at anything short of leading men to Jesus. Do not be satisfied to lead them to orthodox doctrine, or merely to bring them to a belief in those views which you hold to be Scriptural, valuable as that may be. It is to the person of the incarnate God that we must bring them…[2/3]
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…to his feet we must conduct them that they may worship him: our mission is not accomplished, it is a total failure, unless we conduct our hearers to the house where Jesus dwells, and then stand over them, keeping watch over their souls for Jesu’s sake." 3/3 @Spurgeon_ MTPS-1698
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"Go where you will, though you should be in the purest society under heaven, you will find that the best of men are men at best." George Whitefield to John Cennick upon their separation in 1745.
‘There is a grace in Christ sufficient for us to bear us up under, and bear us through all the trials, exercises and afflictions of life; to make us fruitful in every good work; and to cause us to hold on and out unto the end....’ 1/2
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'When anger is unleashed...measure and restraint are abandoned and controversy is no longer a matter of mutual access to and sharing of the goods of truth, but a contest for the survival of selves inflamed by emotion and doing battle in the dark.'
Webster on theological conflict
‘Peace is a good so great, that even in this earthly and mortal life, there is no word we hear with such pleasure, nothing we desire with such zest, or find to be more thoroughly gratifying.'
Augustine
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