If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
Vance HavnerWhen I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
Vance HavnerThe primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
Vance HavnerWhat we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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