"ChurchMinisters" Tagged Sermons
A real lack of strong men in the church gets named directly at the close of this series, and Paul’s own integrity, traced back across the letter’s key passages, is held up as the corrective. Vos himself, this sermon notes, foresaw the chaos the modern church now faces. Paul imitated Christ’s own integrity to the end, giving himself for others, the pattern this whole series has been tracing from its first sermon.
Pastors alone, this sermon argues, are given authority to bless a congregation, a claim tested against Numbers 6’s own priestly benediction. Paul’s closing benediction to the Philippians gets careful analysis on those same terms. The ‘grace’ Paul actually communicates in that closing word has real substance, this sermon insists, more than merely conventional politeness.