THE PERFECT PREACHER HAS BEEN FOUND!

After hundreds of years, a model preacher has been found to suite everyone. He preaches exactly 20 minutes and then sits down. He condemns sin, but never hurts anyone’s feelings.

He works from 8 am to 10 pm in every type of work, from preaching to custodial service. He makes $200 a week, wears good clothes, buys good books regularly, has a nice family, drives a good car, and give $100 a week to the church. He also stands ready to contribute to every good work that comes along.

He is 26 years old and has been preaching for 30 years. He is tall and short, thin and heavyset, handsome. He has one brown eye and one blue, hair parted in the middle, left side dark and straight, the right brown and wavy.

He has a burning desire to work with teenagers and spends all his time with older folks. He smiles all the time with a straight face because he has a sense of humor that keeps him seriously dedicated to his work.

He makes 15 calls a day on church members, spends all his time evangelizing the unchurched, and is never out of his office.

“Second, then, in both his July 2007 letter to New Horizons and in this review article in Ordained Servant, Kloosterman plays what I call the Van Til card. He groups me in a “coalition of Roman Catholic and post-Enlightenment theorists” whose views on general and special revelation Van Til has shown to be mistaken. I cannot help but think that Kloosterman is playing to his audience: he knows that most OPC officers are Van Tillian, so if he can paint me as a non-Van Tillian he will raise additional suspicion against me. Well, I have stated publicly numerous times and have put into print at least once that I hold to a Van Tillian, presuppositional view of apologetics. I explained to my presbytery at my ordination exam that my apologetical view is Van Tillian. I am not a professor of apologetics, but if anyone has evidence that I have ever published or taught in the church or classroom a different apologetical position, then he should present it to me for my reconsideration.”

The entire article is really helpful and there is more he says with regard to his promotion of a Reformed understanding of Natural Law and Van Til’s apologetic. You can read it here: http://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=78

Vincent

Solid quote by J.C. Ryle. I thought you and your readers might enjoy some more Christ-centered, gospel-saturated quotes from my relatively new site, J.C. Ryle Quotes.

Be encouraged and strengthened by these God-centered quotes by John Charles Ryle, penned over a hundred years ago. I trust Ryle will continue to point you to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through his writings.

Though he be dead, he yet speaks.

Keep up the insightful posts/links.

Soli Deo Gloria!
To God Alone Be the Glory!

~ Erik

(3) The neglect of discipline hath a strong tendency to delude immortal souls, by making those think they are Christians that are not, while they are permitted to live with the character of such, and are not separated from the rest by God’s ordinance: and it may make the scandalous think their sin a tolerable thing, which is so tolerated by the pastors of the church.
(4)We corrupt Christianity itself in the eyes of the world, and do our part to make them believe that Christ is no more for holiness than Satan, or that the Christian religion exacteth holiness no more than the false religions of the world. For if the holy and unholy are all permitted to be sheep of the same fold, without any means being used to separate them, we defame the Redeemer, as if he were guilty of it, and if this were the nature of his precepts. Baxter, Reformed Pastor, p. 168.