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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 128 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=195gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 128 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=195gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY. PART I. IjHE Christian minister is one who has seen Jesus Christ our Lord, who knows Him better and loves Him more than other men do, who has caught His likeness and bears His image. Tranquil, simple and serene, severe yet tender, "sorrowful yet alway rejoicing, poor yet making many rich, having nothing and yet possessing all things," he goes about doing good, healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out devils, freely receiving, freely giving, in love and righteousness; a man human and divine. It is not necessary that he should be a clever man, or an eloquent man, or a learned man. He should have nothing of the professional about him, nothing of the " expert." He will not be a monk; not a " hail fellow well met" companion, nor a wit, nor a joker; neither will he be an anxious or careworn man. And his teaching is rather the welling out of a full heart than the logic of an artificial theology. Statements, historic facts, and inferences he can produce when required, and arguments also. Yet arguments about what? His true argument is the realisation of the mind of Christ, and the representation of that to others?Christ as being' God manifest in the flesh. Full of assurance as to the good character of God, he has no hesitation about it in speaking to his brethren. He says that God is not worse, but better, than they themselves are in that in which they are best, ?in love and righteousness; that if they, who are evil, can give good gifts to their children, how much more their heavenly Father ? He tells men to be at peace; that they should argue from the known to the unknown, from that they know about God, the necessarily good character of God, to that they know not, namely, the character of things about them. He has found in Christ that which Lever...<