{"id":5451,"date":"2019-10-07T06:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T06:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2019-10-07T06:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T06:28:37","slug":"man-made-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5451","title":{"rendered":"Man-made ministers!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Man-made ministers!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cThe Two Effects of the Gospel\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry has been very often degraded into a \u2018trade\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are \u2018selected by man\u2019, they are crammed with literature;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they are educated up to a certain point; they are turned out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ready dressed; and persons call them \u2018ministers\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish them all God-speed, every one of them; for as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>good Joseph Irons used to say, \u201cGod be with many of them,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if it be only to make them hold their tongues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man-made ministers are of no use in this world,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the sooner we get rid of them the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man-made ministers! From Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cThe Two Effects of the Gospel\u201d The ministry has been very often degraded into a \u2018trade\u2019. They are \u2018selected by man\u2019, they are crammed with literature; they are educated up to a certain point; they are turned out ready dressed; and persons call them \u2018ministers\u2019. I wish them all God-speed, every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}