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The greatest need of my people is my personal holiness.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
our pulpits ring of nothing more, than doing no one any harm, living honestly, loving your neighbor as yourselves, and do what you can, and then Christ is to make up the deficiency: this is making Christ to be half a savior, and man the other part; but I say, Christ will be your whole righteousness, your whole wisdom, your whole sanctification, or else he will never be your whole redemption.https://www.ccel.org/ccel/whitefield/sermons.xxi.html
Yet, though a man's own heart is so desperately wicked, he is told by our modern polite preachers, that there is a fitness in men, and that God seeing you a good creature, gives you his grace; but this, though it is a modern, polite, and fashionable way of talking, is very unscripturalhttps://www.ccel.org/ccel/whitefield/sermons.xxi.html
I'm even more persuaded than previously that itinerant ministry or the conference circuit speaker is unhealthy. I can think of cases where husband and wife travel together, ministering together, and it is a beautiful thing. However, we must value the local church and the family far above the big names and dynamic conference speakers. We need to be wholeheartedly committed to a family of faith. The preacher-man should be a family-man (1 Timothy 3:4–5). The shepherd should smell like sheep. We need people who know our strengths and our weaknesses. We need people, lots of people, around us who know we're nothing special. We need real accountability.https://www.fairviewbaptistchurch.ca/when-leaders-grievously-sin/
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