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The Five Smooth Stones: Essential Principles for Biblical Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Bemused by the constant rising and falling of new methodologies when he began a career in ministry over 50 years ago, university president Robertson McQuilkin has ever since committed his work to a core group of enduring ministry principles that he calls “the five smooth stones.” In summary, these principles are: • The Bible Making it the functional authority • The Congregation Aligning it...

Question for reflection: Are all psychological insights and popular assumptions consciously and constantly brought to the bar of Scripture to evaluate the validity of church-based counseling and preaching/teaching? In the mid-seventies I spoke to the Evangelical Theological Society on the theme “The Behavioral Sciences Under the Authority of Scripture.” I told the delegates that while we sat and debated the finer points of theology, the pastors and missionaries had
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