HAS YOUR LIFE STYLE OR THINKING CHANGED AS A RESULT OF WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN TONIGHT (EXAMPLE DAVE RAMSEY) OR WHAT YOU HEARD IN THE SUNDAY MORNING MESSAGE BY THE PASTOR?
But others do attend a church — physically. They come in, they sit down. They sing, they may give financially. They may look at you, Pastor, as you preach.But you know their heart belongs to another.
Their real pastor isn't you. It's Dave Hunt. Or it's John Piper. Or it's John MacArthur, or Ligon Duncan, or Mark Dever, or David Cloud, or Joel Osteen. Or it's Charles Spurgeon, or D. M. Lloyd-Jones, or J. C. Ryle. Or Calvin, or Luther, or Bahnsen, or de Mar, or R. B. Thieme, or J. Vernon McGee or even Dave Ramsey, or Dr. Phill.
Brother, sister: John Piper isn't your pastor. John MacArthur knows nothing about you. Dave Hunt never got on his knees and prayed for you. Lloyd-Jones won't come to your house when you're recovering from surgery, or one of your children shatters your heart, or your marriage is shaking and rocking and barely hanging on. Charles Spurgeon won't weep with you as you weep.
Charles Stanley while a great preacher, will never come to your house to view you.
Thanks to Dan Philips for these thoughts.
