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Preaching: The Man, the Message and the Method

Geoffrey Thomas (Author)

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Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 170
Publisher: Reformed Academic Press
ISBN#: 9780980037043
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Description: From the Introduction by Dr. Derek Thomas: "In the oft-cited words of the puritan Thomas Goodwin: 'God has only one Son, and he made him to be a preacher!' Goodwin's point was to emphasis the nobility of a preacher's calling. In days when preaching is devalued and, in some quarters, despised, the reminder that our Lord was a preacher is timely and reassuring. In these days, we need all the reassurance about the value of preaching that we can get and this is precisely what Geoff Thomas gives us in this book....
    In these pages, Geoff Thomas elaborates on several issues. One concern has to do with preaching itself: what it is, why we do it, why we do it in the way we do it. He is convinced that preaching is monological rather than dialogical. In that sense, preaching reflects the process of divine revelation itself. It is delivered as God's final and authoritative word to a dying world....
    Another concern of Geoff Thomas is the content of what is preached. Preachers are to proclaim the whole counsel of God. Nothing is to be withheld....Those members who have sat under his preaching these many years have been taught both Law and Gospel, promise and threat, comfort and rebuke. The entire corpus of the field of systematic and biblical theology has been touched upon in some shape or another....
    And this leads to another concern. The process whereby God makes his truth known is through human instruments....We are to be ourselves in the pulpit, and not the mimic of someone else. As we speak to the truth of God, rightly dividing the Word of God, it is God who speaks through us. We are not vehicles of inspiration but witnesses of the truth. We don t produce the Bible, we preach it....Holy preachers make preaching authoritative and Christ-like. Preachers must stand apart and be known for their piety....
    Perhaps, above everything else, there is Geoff Thomas commitment to plainness of speech. It was J. C. Ryle, in his book, Evangelical Leaders of the 18th Century , who drew attention to this characteristic style of great preaching: They preached simply. They rightly concluded that the very first qualification to be aimed at in a Sermon is to be understood.
    These are just some of the things that I recall about a man whom I greatly esteem and feel privileged in calling a friend. I wholeheartedly commend this volume to you.
    Prepare to be challenged. Prepare to be renewed."
--Derek Thomas, Associate Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology, RTS Jackson; Minister of Teaching, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson
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Author: Dave Bissett
After pastoring nearly 20 years, this little book, with its plain speaking and passion for the pastorate, is so refreshing and invigorating. Fresh air for musty pastoral studies! I could hardly put it down!! Most highly recommended. PTl for Geoff Thomas. db

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