| PREACHING and PREACHERS - Results | 傳道與傳道人 - 結果 |
| God sometimes blesses a poor exegesis of a bad
translation of a doubtful rendering of an obscure verse of a minor prophet! 上帝有時候也會賜福對小先知書中一段令人懷疑的晦澀經文不當翻譯之拙劣解經。 |
| With me this is a maxim: The
sermon that does good is a good sermon. Adam Clarke 這是一個我信守的箴言：「講章有好的果效就是好講章。」 |
| Preaching is not man's work. Neither is
its content or consequence at his disposal. Peter Y. De Jong 講道不是人的工作。連講章的內容及結果都不是傳道人能安排的。 |
| My test of the worth of a
preacher is when his congregations go away saying, not, 'What a beautiful sermon!'
but, 'I will do something.' Francois De Sales 我對傳道人價值的判斷是當他的會眾離開教會之前對他說的不是：「你講的道真棒！」而是「我會身體力行聽到的信息。」 |
| Application is the life of preaching. James Durham 身體力行是宣道的生命。 |
| God's grace can do anything
without ministers' preaching; but ministers' preaching can do nothing without God's grace. Matthew Henry 闕如牧者的宣講上帝恩典依舊行事；但闕如上帝恩典牧者的宣講卻是一事無成。 |
| Do not let any conversion astonish you; be
astonished rather, that anyone should possibly remain unconverted. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones 不要為任何聽了信息歸正的人驚訝；真要驚訝的是居然有人可能仍然不信。 |
| I would rather beg my bread
than preach without success. Robert Murray M'Cheyne 我寧可去要飯也不要失敗的講道。 |
| A faithful ministry will usually be sealed by the
conversion of sinners. Thomas V. Moore 忠心的牧者通常飾以罪人歸主的記號。 |
| Ministers are seldom
honoured with success unless they are continually aiming at the conversion of sinners. John Owen 傳道人很少被冠以成功的美譽除非他持之以恆的目標是罪人的歸主。 |
| If any minister can be satisfied without
conversions, he shall have no conversions. C. H. Spurgeon 任何一位傳道人雖未帶領人歸主卻仍覺滿足，那他就帶領不了人歸主。 |
| We must reach the point of
preferring to die rather than to have a ministry without fruit and without power. Fernando Vangioni 人是我們必須要有這樣的決心，寧死也不要事奉沒有果效、沒有能力。 |