Post by Doc H on Aug 8, 2006 20:30:27 GMT -5
I thoroughly recommend 'The Soul winner's Fire' by John R Rice. It's published by Moody Press 1941. Not sure if it's still available though. I managed to get an old copy.
I read it in one evening. It really stirred my soul.
Just a few short quote's:
They didn't have a musical saw at Pentecost, but 3,000 were saved. John the Baptist didn't wear a cowboy suit and bring a long lariat (not sure what this is) into the pulpit. That is not what won them. Elijah didn't set out to Mount Carmel with a boy prodigy who could play an accordion. It takes more than these incidentals, more than cowbells, and tricks, and solos. IT TAKES THE FIRE OF ALMIGHTY GOD! Nobody is going to win souls and have a revival, unless he has an anointing from God.
Let preachers consider and take notice! Revivals, old-fashioned, Heaven-sent revivals, are ordinarily preceded by plain, sharp, dogmatic, preaching. The preacher who faithfully, fearlessly and with a holy abandon condemns sin in high places and in low, among the saints of God and in the wicked world about him, will cause conviction on the part of sinners, and a keen hunger and thirst for revival on the part of God's people.
There is no room for grace, no use preaching grace unless, first , men know they are awful sinners, wicked, Hell bound sinners.
We need to preach against sin; that is the way Bible preachers did.
I say, you can't have people saved unless first you bring a consciousness of sin, and preach the wrath of God on sin, and call for repentance from sin.
I read it in one evening. It really stirred my soul.
Just a few short quote's:
They didn't have a musical saw at Pentecost, but 3,000 were saved. John the Baptist didn't wear a cowboy suit and bring a long lariat (not sure what this is) into the pulpit. That is not what won them. Elijah didn't set out to Mount Carmel with a boy prodigy who could play an accordion. It takes more than these incidentals, more than cowbells, and tricks, and solos. IT TAKES THE FIRE OF ALMIGHTY GOD! Nobody is going to win souls and have a revival, unless he has an anointing from God.
Let preachers consider and take notice! Revivals, old-fashioned, Heaven-sent revivals, are ordinarily preceded by plain, sharp, dogmatic, preaching. The preacher who faithfully, fearlessly and with a holy abandon condemns sin in high places and in low, among the saints of God and in the wicked world about him, will cause conviction on the part of sinners, and a keen hunger and thirst for revival on the part of God's people.
There is no room for grace, no use preaching grace unless, first , men know they are awful sinners, wicked, Hell bound sinners.
We need to preach against sin; that is the way Bible preachers did.
I say, you can't have people saved unless first you bring a consciousness of sin, and preach the wrath of God on sin, and call for repentance from sin.