Preachers - Dealers of Unseen Things

From J. Gresham Machen’s commencement address to the graduating class at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1931 (D.G. Hart, ed. J. Gresham Machen: Selected Shorter Writings, p. 205):

Remember this, at least - the things in which the world is now interested are the things that are seen; but the things that are seen are temporal, and teh things that are not seen are eternal. You, as ministers of Christ, are called to deal with the unseen things. You are stewards of the mysteries of God. You alone can lead men, by the proclamation of God’s word, out of the crash and jazz and noise and rattle and smoke of this weary age into the green pastures and beside the still waters; you alone, as ministers of reconciliation, can give what the world with all its boasting and pride can never give - the infinite sweetness of the communion of the redeemed soul with the living God. 

Sovereign Grace Church Planting Resources

Good find from Kevin Cawley:

Sovereign Grace Ministries now has a page dedicated to church planting. In addition to descriptions of Sovereign Grace’s church planting model and church planting FAQ, the site hosts a resources page with a number of helpful pdf documents. The resources page is broken up into three categories, and each section provides extremely valuable resources

-The Church Planter
-The Church Planting Team
-The Church Plant

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