2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
–2 Timothy 4:2-5 (NIV)–
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.
–2 Corinthians 5:11 (KJV)–
The office of a bishop.
–1 Timothy 3:1 (KJV)–
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Dr. John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 1985).
Gary Gilley, This Little Church Went to Market (Evangelical Press, 2005).
John MacArthur, Ashamed of the Gospel, 3rd ed (Crossway, 2018).
McClymond, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford, 2012), p. 437ff.
Paul Zahl, “The Bishop-Led Church,” Perspectives on Church Government (B&H, 2004).
Gilbert Tennent, “The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry.”
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