Mark E. Dever Churches today must be recovered. They must once again put the Word of God at the center; and that happens most fundamentally through preaching. The great Puritan pastor Richard Baxter said that “All churches either rise or fall as the ministry doth rise or fall, not in riches and worldly grandeur, but in knowledge, zeal and ability for their work.”1 As I thought and prayed about the role of the pastor and the work of the ministry, my attention
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