SaturdayDec 21, 2024
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If you are to preach, you must make up your minds that you are sent, and sent by God.
A Roman Catholic priest from England, who said: Of course I do not believe that no Protestant can go to Heaven. I have known many Protestants whom I firmly believe to be in Heaven, and I have known some that I believe went straight to Heaven without passing through Purgatory. Edward King is the one that comes first to mind.
One of his students wrote afterwards of King's influence as follows: The whole place was alive with him. His look, his voice, his gaiety, his beauty, his charm, his holiness, filled it and possessed it. There was an air about it, a tone in it, a quality, a delicacy, a depth, which were his creation.... All was human, natural, and free.
Nothing anonymous will ever persuadethe faith and conduct of the preacher give life and power to his message. Thus preaching is different from mere feeling. You may teach mathematics or geography without being fully convinced. But in delivering the Gospel message, if it is to be a living life-giving message, there must be in the preacher a sense of message and the desire to deliver it.
One of his students wrote afterwards of King's influence as follows: It was light he carried with himlight that shone through himlight that flowed from him. The room was lit into which he entered. It was as if we had fallen under a streak of sunlight, that flickered, and danced, and laughed, and turned all to color and gold....
Without the gift of love, you will never be a preacher.
Christ lives in his saints. We know his life in them. St. Paul prayed to know the power of the Resurrection, though he knew the fact.
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