“The primary task of the church and the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God.”

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
(1899-1981; Wales)

 

 

“[God] is there and He is not silent.”

Francis Schaeffer
(1912-1984; Pennsylvania)

 

 

“[We need…] Men, mighty in the Scriptures, their lives dominated by a sense of the greatness, the majesty and the holiness of God, and their hearts aglow with the great truths of the doctrines of grace. Men who will have learned what it is to die to self, to human aims, and personal ambitions; men who are willing to be fools for Christ’s sake, who will bear reproach and falsehood, who will labor and suffer, and whose desire will be, not to gain earth’s accolades, but to win the Master’s approbation when they appear before His awesome judgment seat. Men who will preach with broken hearts and tear-filled eyes and upon whose ministries God will grant an extraordinary effusion of the Holy Spirit and who will witness signs and wonders following in the transformation of multitudes of human lives.”

George Whitefield
(1714-1770; England and Massachusetts)