Letter to Presbyterian Guardian: Sunday Evening Bible Institute
Presbyterian Guardian, February 25, 1959, Volume 28, Number 4, Page 57
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir:
The report on the "Sunday Evening Bible Institute" as described by Mr. Bachman in the January 10 GUARDIAN sounds promising as a means for reaching more people with the truth. We should all be alert to refreshing ways of presenting the doctrine of Scripture. However, is it not possible to preserve Reformed principles of worship while adding new ideas? For example, does a twenty-minute worship period allow time for the exercise of the particular means of grace-prayer and the preaching of the Word? The Shorter Catechism says, "The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching, of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort through faith unto salvation" (Q.89). Cannot the most prominent place be given to these things without eliminating the possibility of modification in method?
Sincerely,
C. JACK MILLER Rt. 6, Box 1565 Modesto, Calif.
Location: Stockton, California