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To Whom Do You Call Attention?
Your Father Loves You by James Packer, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986, page for March 26, 1993
To Whom Do You Call Attention?
Your Father Loves You by James Packer, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986, page for March 26, 1993
"You cannot at the same time give the impression that you are a great preacher"&md;or theologian or debater or whatever&md;"and that Jesus Christ is a great Savior" (James Denney). If you call attention to yourself and your own competence, you cannot effectively call attention to Jesus and his glorious sufficiency.