11.26.2005

Advent and my own, personal (ministerial) conviction, part 6

Ryle again, on John being filled with the Spirit and turning hearts (Luke 1:15-16):

"The character of a really great and successful minister... is one who will 'turn hearts,' - turn them from ignorance to knowledge, from carelessness to thoughtfulness, from sin to God.... Without such men, learning, titles, endowments, and splendid buildings, will keep no Church alive. Souls will not be saved, good will not be done, Christ will not be glorified, except by men full of the Holy Ghost."

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