You may have rare intellectual gifts, and high mental attainments — you may sway kingdoms by your counsel, move millions by your pen, or keep crowds in breathless attention by your tongue.
But if you have never submitted yourself to the yoke of Christ, and never honored His Gospel by heartfelt reception of it or never decided to be a cross-bearing disciple of Christ— then you are nothing but chaff in His sight.
Are you?
J.C. Ryle*
Pastor/Preacher/Author
First Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, UK
*J C Ryle was powerful preacher and convicting writer. He was also described as "a man of granite with the heart of a child". He served as an Anglican Bishop but his life and ministry was markedly different from his contemporaries. He spoke the truth fearlessly even if it differed from the conventional wisdom of the Anglican church. He was a revivalist – a "burning and a shining light" like John the Baptist (read John 5:35) who did not compromise the truth or preach a convenient gospel. May the Lord raise more such men of God today – John
These Think It Overs are a ministry of Changi Chapel Community. They are archived at www.ThinkItOverToday.org. You can read and review the ones you missed earlier there. Your comments, thoughts or suggestions are welcome. The body text is by the author, the header and the words in italics are mine – John B. Samuel
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