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Both Legs Needed
B. B. Warfield, quoted in Credenda Agenda, Volume 4/Number 5, p. 16
Both Legs Needed
B. B. Warfield, quoted in Credenda Agenda, Volume 4/Number 5, p. 16
A minister must be learned, on pain of being utterly incompetent for his work. But before and above being learned, a minister must be godly. Nothing could be more fatal, however, than to set these two things over against one another. Recruiting officers do not dispute whether it is better for soldiers to have a right leg or a left leg: soldiers should have both legs.