• Preachers today are licensed and ordained by the church; men of old were ordained and sent by God.
• Preachers today go forth armed with degrees and credentials; men of old went forth anointed by the Holy Spirit.
• Preachers today are questioned by committees and hired to preach what the church believes; men of old came preaching, “Thus saith the Lord.”
• Preachers today give themselves to programs, visitation, church business; men of old gave themselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word.
• Preachers today preach and men are persuaded to move their membership; men of old preached and “they were pricked in their hearts and cried, Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
• Preachers today pray and the organ plays softly; Elijah prayed and the fire of God fell.
• Preachers today are afraid that they will offend someone; Paul was afraid that he would not. If there is no offence, the gospel has not been preached.
Anon
Reblogged this on Photo's, Hodgepodge and Miscellany and commented:
Real preachers are few and far between!
Sounds like he knows exactly what is going on. We have church and everything with it, except God.
Oh, if only we were hungry for Him, but we are too full of ourselves to notice.
Are the leaders of the body of Christ inspirational speakers or shepherds? One motivates and recruits, the other disciplines, guides and leads.
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