Some Pastors and Teachers

Some Pastors and Teachers is a volume for every minister's study
and indeed for the bookshelves and bedside tables of everyone who has a concern
for the ministry of the gospel and the well-being of the church in the
twenty-first century. In many ways, it reflects the biblical vision of what
every minister is called to be: pastor, teacher, counsellor, and
example-but also a man who is growing spiritually, both in understanding
and in character, before the eyes of his congregation.
In five sections and thirty-nine chapters, Sinclair B Ferguson writes
on pastor-teachers whose life and work have left an indelible mark on his own
life, and then leads us in a series of chapters on the teaching of John Calvin,
John Owen and the seventeenth century Puritans. This is followed by studies of
Scripture, the ministry of the Spirit, the nature of Biblical Theology, the
work of Christ, adoption, the nature of the Christian life and other important
doctrines. The final section discusses various aspects of preaching, including
preaching Christ from the Old Testament, the importance of theology, reaching
the heart, and concludes with a decalogue for preachers. All this, as the
epilogue makes clear, is set within the context and goal of doxology.
Here is a book to return to again and again, for instruction, for
challenge, and also for enjoyment. While written particularly with ministers in
view its style makes it accessible to all. Dr Ferguson describes Some Pastors
and Teachers as a series of small gifts for fellow-ministers and others,
written as an expression of the love of Christ. It is calculated to help both
ministers of the gospel and entire congregations to realize Paul's vision
of churches growing up into Christ as they are nourished and taught by their
pastors and teachers.
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