Expensive Pal,
Carved into the stone on the entrance to our constructing are these phrases from Isaiah 40:8: “The grass withers, the flower fades, however the phrase of our God will stand without end.”
Scripture is God’s present to us via the Holy Spirit. In it now we have each an correct report of God’s revelation and an correct interpretation of the individual and work of Jesus. Solely in Scripture do now we have what God says in everlasting and written type. We develop into satisfied of the authority of Scripture by Scripture itself.
Once I was fifteen and our household was shifting from Glasgow to stay in Ilkley, Yorkshire, I used to be given a Bible from my Sunday college. It was inscribed with 2 Timothy 2:15, the place Paul urges Timothy to rightly divide the Phrase of Reality. It by no means crossed my thoughts then, as a young person, that sooner or later I would want to take that to coronary heart. Right here I’m, fifty years on from ordination to Gospel ministry, and collectively at Reality For Life, now we have been dedicated to the identical goal for the previous thirty years.
When youthful pastors enquire about my strategy to the Bible, I encourage them to hitch me in finding out it diligently, trusting it totally, and proclaiming it fearlessly. We’re previous clay pots—males with all of the pure faults and passions that plague humanity. It’s proper and essential that we ask God to save lots of us from ourselves and from any hurt we could trigger in in search of to bless others.
That is the place our Truthpartners come to the fore. Truthpartners uphold the work to which we’re dedicated—educating the Bible with readability and relevance in order that unbelievers are transformed, believers are established, and native church buildings are strengthened.
I really feel very a lot in want of your partnership as I step other than the Parkside pulpit and have interaction in a brand new and extra targeted position at Reality For Life.
When talking at a convention this week, I used to be as soon as once more humbled by assembly those that have stood by us each prayerfully and financially for all these years. Let me encourage you to hitch this necessary firm that makes the proclamation of the Gospel via Reality For Life potential—and maybe you may invite others to do the identical.
Our program this month affirms all we imagine and is bolstered by the supplies we’re providing. Sinclair’s e-book The Christian Life is a treasure and one you received’t need to miss. The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion is a discipleship course designed by our workforce that can assist you lead somebody who’s both new to Christianity or exploring Christianity via the foundational truths in Scripture. It’s a useful useful resource to make use of when sharing the Gospel. Simply this week, a person from Iran who was transformed from a Muslim background instructed me that he’s utilizing this course with younger males within the church he attends.
So I finish the place I started: The Phrase of God does the work of God by the Spirit of God. What a privilege now we have all been given to be stewards of the mysteries of grace!
With my love within the Lord Jesus,
Alistair
