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Old 05-08-2008, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by joshua View Post
Exceptional men are not the rule.
Nor is the antithesis quite so profound as some would make it. There are cases of men with preaching gifts yet lacking pastoral skills and even in Presbyterian circles I believe some denoms recognize the office of evangelist as one who does street preaching although not ordained to a church. Brownlow North was one such example.
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"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar of 1500-year-old, 200 proof grace—a bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all these centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your own bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home-free before they started. Grace was to be drunk neat: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale." – Robert Farrar Capon
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