| PREACHING and PREACHERS - Trials | 傳道與傳道人 - 試驗 |
| In the ministry, to keep on keeping on you will find
your chief difficulty. 在牧會上，繼續不斷的事奉你會發現你自己主要難題。 |
| It would be a parody on the
shrewdness of the devil and a libel on his character and reputation if he did not bring
his master influences to adulterate the preacher and the preaching. E. M. Bounds 如果魔鬼無法將牠主人的影響力入傳道人和他的講道那可不單證明魔鬼的手法拙劣也是對牠特色及名聲的詆毀。 |
| Every wise workman takes his tools away from the
work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise
Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that
he may sharpen and prepared them for harder work in his service. Robert Murray M'Cheyne 任何聰明的工人都會偶而將他的工具帶離工作場所好重新調整並保持銳利；大智慧的耶和華亦是如此常將祂的傳道人帶到黑暗、孤單、問題中，好讓他們能夠保持銳利並預備面對更艱難的工作。 |
| The occupational hazard of
the Christian ministry and evangelism is discouragement. John R. W. Stott 教會牧師、傳道人最大的職業危機就是灰心。 |
| I find it absolutely necessary that gospel ministers
should meet with...thorns in the flesh, that both ministers and hearers may know
themselves to be but men. George Whitefield 我發現傳福音的牧者絕對需要的是...身體的一根刺，牧者以及聽者才能明白他們只是人而已。 |