Category: Evangelism

  • Invitations

    Today I spent some time studying church covenants. In the process I came across a totally unrelated but interesting little tidbit from Leon McBeth’s The Baptist Heritage. While relating the beliefs and practices of the Sandy Creek Church, McBeth notes some differences between General and Separate Baptists. The distinctions between…

  • The Necessity of Gospel Preaching

    Yesterday I focused on God’s sovereignty in salvation as evidenced by election (1 Thess 1:4). Listen to Paul’s words from the next chapter: They [the Jews mentioned in vv. 14-15a] are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men, hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they…

  • The Best Way to Preach Sinners to Christ

    I read the following this morning from Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students, book 2, chapter 10, “On Conversion as Our Aim” — If we are intensely anxious to have souls saved we must not only preach the truths which are likely to lead up to this end, but we must…