EXTRACTS

The Lord is aiming at the greatest possible product; but the church is to be the acme of divine workmanship and He is pleased to use us in that. So it is a question of one’s ability for refining, that is, the increase in quality in the ministry. The heavenly city will be the fulness of the result of that work, the excess. The superlative degree is in Ephesians, and that points to the work of God in its completeness. The heavenly city really will display the supreme refining work of God, and that is what should affect us if the Lord is pleased to call us into His service; are we able to move on into a little bit of quality in ministry? It is not simply volume; quality is the thing to which the Lord would call attention.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 32, p.51)

To be in real service ... you must insist on yourself being the model of what you preach. Be able always to say, like Gideon, ‘Do as I do’. Paul was always the model of what he taught, and I do not believe any of us effect for others in our ministry more than what the Spirit has effected in ourselves. If the ministry be of divine power, and adapted to a believer for his acceptance, surely it must begin with the minister.

J. B. Stoney (N.S. Vol. 12, p.375)

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