universities, and you can make a pretty good case that if we junk the gospel, pastors still have plenty of work to do. Remove the gospel, and authentic biblical ministry disappears. Truth is, gentlemen, if we don’t have a gospel, we don’t have a job—at least as God sees it (1 Cor. 2:2). We exist because God’s people need men to gather them into local families and preach to them the Word of God in faith and power. Sure, they need to talk about their problems, have people officiate their marriages
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