Gospel Ministry
by John Owen
A modernized Puritan Paperback drawing together several of John Owen's later sermons on the work of the Christian ministry, addressed both to pastors who shepherd a congregation and to the people called to sit under their care. Owen unfolds how the Holy Spirit equips men for ministry, what ends the church exists to serve, and why no minister should ever be ashamed of the gospel he preaches.
Based on Sermons from The Works of John Owen, Vol. 9
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Owen
“He is no pastor who doth not feed his flock.”
“No man preaches that sermon well to others that doth not first preach it to his own heart.”
“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.”
“Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.”
“Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.”
“Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.”
“A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead, sin is alive, and will live.”
“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
