Pleasure & Profit in Bible StudyMoody, Dwight Lyman
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Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Bible -- Study and teaching
Never mark anything because you saw it in some one else's Bible. If it
does not come home to you, if you not understand it, do not put it down.
Never pass a nugget by without trying to grasp it. Then mark it down.
CHAPTER XV.
Personal Work--Three Kinds of Church Services--Church
Members--Individual Experience--One Inquirer at a Time--Those who lack
Assurance--Backsliders--Not Convicted of Sin--Deeply Convicted--The
Divinity of Christ--Can't Hold Out--No Strength--Feelings--Can't
Believe--Can't be Saved all at Once--Not Now--Further Suggestions.
PERSONAL dealing is of the most vital importance. No one can tell how
many persons have been lost to the Kingdom of God through lack of
following up the preaching of the Gospel by personal work. It is
deplorable how few church-members are qualified to deal with inquirers,
yet that is the very work in which they ought most efficiently to aid
the pastor. People are not usually converted under the preaching of the
minister. It is in the inquiry-meeting that they are most likely to be
brought to Christ. They are perhaps awakened under the minister, but God
generally uses some one person to point out the way of salvation and
bring the anxious to a decision. Some people can't see the use of
inquiry-meetings, and think they are something new, and that we haven't
any authority for them. But they are no innovation. We read about them
all through the Bible. When John the Baptist was preaching he was
interrupted. It would be a good thing if people would interrupt the
minister now and then in the middle of some metaphysical sermon, and ask
what he means. The only way to make sure that people understand what he
is talking about is to let them ask questions. I don't know what some
men, who have got the whole address written out, would do if some one
should get up and ask: "What must I do to be saved?" Yet such questions
would do more good than anything else you could have. They would awake a
spirit of inquiry. Some of Christ's sweetest teachings were called forth
by questions.
THREE KINDS OF CHURCH SERVICES.
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