“Character is indispensable to credibility, and credibility is essential to leadership.”

“In spite of grand accomplishments and a large following, a leader without character is just another image, a cultural icon for the moment that is sure to crash and burn, replaced by tomorrow’s new and improved version.”

Walter Brueggemann passed away yesterday, June 5, 2025 Apostolic Review

Nowhere in Scripture do we have the slightest hint that God’s people are to volunteer. Rather, the Scriptures indicate that the use of our gifts should be considered a joyful responsibility.

Curtis Thomas—

If the “sermon” doesn’t originate from God in heaven, then it runs the risk of being from man’s earthly wisdom; wisdom not from above is earthly, sensual, and devilish (James 3:15).

Theology’s proper goal is to equip the disciples of Jesus Christ for obedience.

Nothing will zap a church of its spiritual vitality or steal a pastor’s joy faster than a church fight.

Spiritual Leadership is a high-stress calling.

Society set free from God is its own worst enemy.

We must grasp once again, the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come a man’s way in this world. D Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called. PREACHER … NEVER FORGET IT.

Adapted from D Martyn Lloyd-Jones

We must be very careful to draw this distinction between essentials and non-essentials lest we become guilty of schism and begin to rend the body of Christ.