By Paul J. Casebolt “Priority 1. Quality of being prior. 2. Superiority in rank, position, or privilege. 3.Order of preference based on urgency, importance, or merit” (Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary). Others have addressed different aspects of a gospel meeting such as the purpose, the preaching, the preparation, and the advertising. But if we cannot understand or …
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Paying the Preacher: The Laborer is Worthy of His Reward
By Ron Holbrook Whether the preacher’s needs are supplied by individuals, as in Luke 10:7, or by the local church, as in 1 Timothy 5:18, the Bible says in both passages, “The laborer is worthy of his reward.” Preachers and all other brethren need to remember first and foremost that when we labor together in the …
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The Purpose of Gospel Meetings
By Mike Willis “Why should we have gospel meetings? We are not baptizing people any more. Gospel meetings used to accomplish a lot of good when America was a rural nation and non-Christians would visit the meetings. But, now non-Christian Americans will not visit gospel meetings, so they are a left-over relic from a by-gone era …
Gospel Meetings
By Donnie V. Rader This special issue of Guardian of Truth is about gospel meetings. In some places it seems that meetings have become a mere custom or routine. It’s time that we stop and think about why we are having a meeting and what we can do to improve on it. Are we having this …