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Near the end of his ministry, Charles H. Spurgeon wrote a series of articles entitled "The Down Grade." He was warning the church of his day that Christianity was on the decline, and worse, the downward momentum seemed to be overtaking evangelicalism. Christian leaders were becoming worldly, spiritually cold, and tolerant of doctrinal error. So much so, that he feared the Church would eventually...

• Preach the Word—in season and out of season—reproving, rebuking, and exhorting with great patience and instruction (4:1, 2). • Be sober in all things (4:5). • Endure hardship (4:5). • Do the work of an evangelist (4:5). Nothing in that list hints at a market-driven philosophy. In fact, most of those commands are impossible to harmonize with the theories that are so popular today. To sum it all up in five categories, Paul commanded Timothy: 1) to be faithful in his preaching of biblical truth; 2)
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