God’s Ministers

The greater part of men are never called, qualified and commissioned to preach the Gospel. There never was such a condition where the servants of Christ ‘always and everywhere’ were preaching the Gospel of Christ! Even the apostle Paul “...assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.“ (Acts 16:7) He was directed into Macedonia!

Men that are called of God do not go ‘everywhere.’ They go wherever God in His sovereign providence cast their lot. They have no further accountability than to preach as they are directed of God. Furthermore, they are accountable to preach the Gospel wherever God directs them and woe is me if I preach not the Gospel of God! Invariably, as one studies the early history of the church in the Acts of the Apostles, it was most usually persecution which instrumentally drove them abroad, where they went preaching the Word. Traveling merchants and itinerate ministers covered Europe long before 1792. In all the Book of Acts, there is no mention of any current methods: mission societies, evangelistic committees, members telling their ministers where they can or cannot go, to whom they are to preach or not to preach nor what they are to preach. In other words, God’s ministers are HIS! And they are answerable in all the above matters only TO HIM.