by T. Austin-Sparks
Published in January 2025 by Austin-Sparks.net.
As editor of the “A Witness and A Testimony” magazine published in England from 1925 to 1971, T. Austin-Sparks wrote individual articles as well as series of messages later published as books. This book contains a compilation of his articles from the Austin-Sparks.Net website on the topic: Ministry.
"The ideas of doing God's work, and of what His work is, are very often far from the truth. The ideas of the means by which God would work are very often largely outside of the pale of God's acceptance. We are concerned with real spiritual effectiveness, are we not? Then we have to learn the secret of it; that is what we are after. The credentials of ministry are the shining of God's glory in the face of Jesus Christ in our heart, and anybody who has that can be a minister; and anybody who has not that has no right to call himself a minister. The Cross must strike at all ideas of ministry which are merely professional, which are anything other than spiritual."
