The young preacher has been taught to lay out all his strength on the form, style, and beauty of his sermon as an oratorical performance.
We have thereby cultivated a worldly taste in the church and raised the clamor for talent, instead of grace; eloquence, instead of piety; rhetoric, instead of revelation; brilliancy, instead of holiness.
What the Church needs today is not more or better machinery, nor new organizations, nor novel methods but men whom the Holy Spirit can use, men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.
The Holy Spirit does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not anoint church machinery, but men, men of prayer.
We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel.
The Church is looking for better methods. God is looking for holier men.
[E. M. Bounds]
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2 Corinthians 11:4 … For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
1 Peter 1:16 … Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.❤
