Austin Gardner

The following quotes are from a book by Warren Wiersbe, On Being a Servant of God. They are some of the bravest, bluntest statements I have ever read. Read and enjoy or endure!
Because it has power and can slowly seduce us into treating it like a god. Instead of loving  God with all the heart, [...]

Paul next asks for open doors to preach the gospel. That is exactly what your missionary is going to need the minute he arrives on the field. Just where will he preach? Who will listen to him? He needs God to direct his paths. He needs to know where to [...]

Then Paul asks his people to pray that his service will be accepted by the saints. Paul did not want to offend the brethren he just wanted to be a blessing. He wanted to do what he knew God had called him to do but he knew that God would have to open [...]

Now let us consider some of the ways that we can pray knowing them to be the will of God that will have a definite effect on the ministry of our missionary or pastor. Here Paul asks (begs) that his people get involved and to strive, or work, or agonize with him in prayer. [...]

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We have turned the Great Commission into something like the following:
Go ye
(Well not the majority of you…, We need most of you to stay home and work, make money…, take care of the church and the pastor, have a nice house, life, spend time with your family—after all you shouldn’t sacrifice the family, [...]

i. Some will come from our own family as we train our children Noah and his three sons, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the 12 sons
ii. Some will come from our ministry Moses and Joshua and the other leaders, captains and judges that worked with Moses
iii. Some God will miraculously call out and send to you Eli and Samuel
iv. Others [...]

• “Infighting among personnel is more devilish, desperate, and devastating than anything from the outside.” Clarence W. Jones
A. For too long we have been so independent of each other that we are almost independent of God. Each of us goes to our field and acts as though there is no one else there. We need [...]

Hundredfold men
1. Biblical Basis for the idea
i. Matthew 13:23
ii. Mark 4:8
iii. Matthew 25:15
iv. 1Corinthians 15:10
2. The mathematical model of taking a number and doubling it shows the progression. Would you rather have a $1,000 a day for 30 days or one penny doubled every day for 30 days
3. The ministry of God’s gifted people
i. 2Timothy 2:2
ii. Ephesians 4:1-16
4. The potential of one man training [...]

• “I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light”– John Keith Falconer
• “If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”– C.T. Studd
• “And [...]