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The Archer and the Arrow: Preaching the Very Words of God

Phillip D. Jensen & Paul Grimmond (Authors)

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Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 148
Publisher: Matthias Media
ISBN#: 9781921441806

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Description: This book is about a sentence 40 years in the making:

"My aim is to preach the gospel by prayerfully expounding the Bible to the people God has given me to love." (Phillip Jensen)

Join Phillip Jensen and Paul Grimmond as they explore each phrase in this carefully wrought statement, and show not only why faithful, powerful, biblical preaching is so important, but how to go about it.

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"Preaching is the lifeblood of the local church. This is an outstanding book by one of the world's foremost preachers, and is essential reading for any would-be Bible teacher."
--William Taylor, Rector, St Helen’s Bishopsgate, London, UK

"Phillip Jensen has been both faithfully and provocatively preaching God's Word for decades. Here he tells us how. His observations are keen, his suggestions convicting, his speaking plain."
--Mark Dever, Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington DC, USA

"Having gained so much from Phillip Jensen's preaching, I am delighted that his thoughts and instruction on the preacher's task are now in print. They are characteristically rooted in Scripture, radical, challenging and inspiring, and will be a great help to all preachers--from the novice to the veteran."
--Vaughan Roberts, Rector, St. Ebbe's Church, Oxford, UK

Wondering how this book relates to The Trellis and the Vine?
The Archer and the Arrow distills what Phillip has learned about preaching over the past 40 years, not just from doing it (a lot!), but from grappling with what the Bible itself says about the preacher's task. In the book he offers his own summary of what that task is:

My aim is to preach the gospel by prayerfully expounding the Bible to the people God has given me to love.

You'll notice that this sentence includes the famous three P's of Christian ministry: proclamation (or preaching), prayer and people. It shares this basic philosophy of ministry with The Trellis and the Vine, and in many ways the two are companion volumes. Trellis and Vine focused on how the three P's relate to individual people and their growth, and how structures and programs can sometimes overwhelm our ability to nurture and train each person. It zeroed in on the need to train and equip every Christian not only to be a disciple, but to be a disciple-making disciple.

The Archer and the Arrow focuses on the public proclamation of the gospel through prayerful, Bible-based preaching, and—as with The Trellis and the Vine—a simple image illustrates the book's main point. The job of the preacher is to craft arrows from the word of God and to fire them into the hearts of the people God has given him to love. The preacher's job is to speak the "oracles of God" whenever he speaks (as 1 Pet 4:11 puts it)—not to preach his own words, but to understand God's words in the Scripture, and to proclaim and unfold and explain those words to his hearers. (This is 'expository' preaching, which is one of those labels that many people claim but few actually practice.)

If your approach to people-work was challenged and provoked by The Trellis and the Vine, then consider it very likely that your view and practice of preaching will be similarly upended by The Archer and the Arrow.

About the Authors
Phillip Jensen is an internationally renowned preacher and evangelist. He is the author of the well-known Two Ways to Live gospel presentation, as well as numerous books and Bible study materials, including Guidance and the Voice of God. He currently serves as Dean of Sydney at St Andrew’s Cathedral. Phillip and his wife, Helen, have three children and a growing number of grandchildren.

Paul Grimmond is a gifted and well-known Bible teacher, currently serving on the campus of the University of NSW. He is the author of Right Side Up, a book aimed at helping new Christians to understand the Christian life. Paul lives with his wife, Cathy, and their three children in Sydney’s east.
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