“We are continually striving to create new methods, plans, and organizations to advance the Church. We are ever working to provide and stimulate growth and efficiency for the Gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the Man. Or else he is lost in the workings of the plan or organization. God’s plan is to make much of the Man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better Men…..What the Church needs today is not more or better machinery, not new organizations nor more novel methods. She needs Men whom the Holy Spirit can use---Men of prayer, Men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not flow through methods, but through Men. He does not come on machinery, but on Men. He does not anoint plans, but Men---Men of Prayer!”
Written over 150 years ago, the message is still good for today’s Church.
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