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The Christian Ministry

The Christian Ministry

by Charles Bridges
One of the best and most comprehensive books ever written on the work of the ministry.
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Hardcover, 390 pages

Published August 1st 1981 by Banner of Truth

tags: theology, church ministry, christianity, church, religion, leadership, ecclesiology, nonfiction, christian 
Book Quotes
“It is not easy to overcome our natural love of ease, our indisposition to self-denying devotedness, and our false tenderness in flinching from the declaration of unpalatable truths.”
― Charles Bridges
“Except we realize a high estimation of the Church, the constraining influence of the Saviour's love, and the upholding prop of Almighty grace, what is there to preserve us from sinking in despondency?”
― Charles Bridges
“Covetousness is far more specious than worldly conformity. It has much to plead under the cover of necessity, justice, prudence, and economy.”
― Charles Bridges
“In the Church he " transforms himself into an angel of light" s— exhibiting either the attractive idol of self-righteousness—or that most inveterate form of antichrist—the dependence on the profession of a pure doctrine.”
― Charles Bridges
“What a large share of humility, what unceasing supply of Divine grace, is needed to resist a temptation, that falls in so powerfully with the selfish principle of the natural heart!”
― Charles Bridges
“No one attains remarkable eminence or success, without a resolute and habitual self-denial in subordinating every secondary point to the primary object.”
― Charles Bridges
“The kindness of the world is far more formidable than its enmity. Many, who were prepared to stem the torrent of its opposition, have yielded with compromising indulgence to its paralyzing kindness.”
― Charles Bridges
“The contempt also of the Sabbath—the predominant character of pleasure, dissipation, and the general inattention or opposition to religion in the heads of the parish—too often present a hostile front to our course of effort and instruction.”
― Charles Bridges
“Thus our whole course is a struggle against the mighty current of sin—flowing out of that restless bias of the natural heart, which upon the highest authority is declared to be " enmity against God.”
― Charles Bridges
“THE Church is the mirror, that reflects the whole effulgence of the Divine character. It is the grand scene, in which the perfections of Jehovah are displayed to the universe.”
― Charles Bridges
“If a young man has capacity; culture and application may make him a scholar, a philosopher, or an orator; but a true Minister must have certain principles, motives, feelings, and aims, which no industry or endeavours of men can either acquire or communicate. They must be given from above, or they cannot be received.”
― Charles Bridges
“When we see the most "able Minister of the New Testament" that the Church has ever known, deeply penetrated, and indeed well-nigh overwhelmed, with the sense of the "necessity laid upon him"—we may well be ashamed, that with qualifications far inferior, our sense of obligation should be less accurate and constraining.”
― Charles Bridges
“This sacred office is administered by agents, Divinely-called through the medium of lawful authority, and entrusted with the most responsible and enriching blessing; rendering the highest possible service to their fellow men, because that most nearly connected with the glory of the Saviour.”
― Charles Bridges
“Thus discouragements, properly sustained and carefully improved, become our most fruitful sources of eventual encouragement while love to our work bears us on above all our difficulties.”
― Charles Bridges
“As to spiritual qualifications, we would be careful neither to lower, exceed, or deviate from, the Scriptural standard.”
― Charles Bridges
“The revelations made to the Church—the successive grand events in her history—and, above all—the manifestation of "the glory of God in the Person of Jesus Christ"—furnish even to the heavenly intelligences fresh subjects of adoring contemplation.”
― Charles Bridges
“the Divine call to this sacred office will be evidenced by a supply of competent qualifications for its discharge.”
― Charles Bridges
“In " considering the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus," we witness a most harmonious combination of seemingly opposite characteristics. The Ministry of our Lord was distinguished by the dignity of God, and the sympathy of a man and a brother—by the authority of the commissioned delegate of his Father, and yet by the humility of a servant, who " came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.”
― Charles Bridges
“it is but too plain, that we have lost that distinction of "the servants of Christ," which it would have been our honour to have preserved; that our Christian prudence has degenerated into worldly cowardice; and that our conversation with the world has been regulated by the fear of man, fleshly indulgence, and practical unbelief of the most solemn warnings of the Gospel.”
― Charles Bridges
“How much more afraid are we of others going too far, than of coming short ourselves of the full requisitions of the Scriptural standard!—sometimes preferring intercourse with our brethren of a lower standard, or even with the world, rather than with those, whose Ministry most distinctly bears the mark of the cross!”
― Charles Bridges
Charles Bridges

      Charles Bridges was a preacher and theologian in the Church of England, and a leader of that denomination's Evangelical Party. As a preacher he was well-regarded by his contemporaries, but is remembered today for his literary contributions. Educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1817 and served from 1823 to 1849 as vicar of Old Newton, Suffolk.

      In 1849, he became vicar of Weymouth, Dorset, later serving as vicar of Hinton Martell, Dorset (c. 1857). Bridges participated (with J. C. Ryle) in the Clerical Conference at Weston-super-Mare of 1858, and also participated in the consecration of the Bishop of Carlisle in York Minster in 1860.

      At least twenty-four editions of Bridges' Exposition of Psalm 119 (1827) were published in his lifetime. C. H. Spurgeon considered the commentary to be 'worth its weight in gold'. Spurgeon also pronounced Bridges' Exposition of Proverbs (1840) 'The best work on the Proverbs'.

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