The Ideal Ministry Author:Herrick Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company Subjects: Pastoral theology Preaching Religion / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Religion / Clergy Religion / Christian Ministry / General Notes: This is a black a... more »nd white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II THE IDEAL MINISTRY -- ITS SUPREME AIM: PERFECT MANHOOD IN CHRIST JESUS SYLLABUS 1. It is in aim that secular and sacred public speech radically differ. Secular public speech aims to move the trill. Sacred public speech aims to move the will Godward. 2. Scriptural confirmation : (a) This is what Christ gave Himself to the Church (or (Eph. 4 : 11, 12). (ft) This is the exact meaning of the "Great Commission " (Matt. 28 : 19, 20), Go ye and make and teach disciples. Rescue men from spiritual death, and build them up in spiritual life. 3. While this is being done, many other things will be done: Social conditions will be revolutionized ; governments will be made pure; clean homes and streets and politics will be the universal order; the kingdom of heaven on earth will at last witness, in its completeness, to the manifold wisdom of God. 4. The God-appointed means for all this is the Preaching of the Word, constituting the ministry of . Reconciliation and the ministry of Sanctiflcation. No other ministry for a man of God or a church of God. 5. Two things made impossible by the presence of this supreme aim -- (a) That the sermon should be prepared with only the sermon in view. (6) That one should think lightly of homiletio toil. THE IDEAL MINISTRY -- ITS SUPREME AIM: PERFECT MANHOOD IN CHRIST JESUS THE supreme aim is perfect manhood in Christ Jesus...« less