Comments on: Four (more) characteristics of Evangelistic Preaching https://headhearthand.org/blog/2012/07/12/four-more-characteristics-of-evangelistic-preaching/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Evangelistic Preaching 101: How to Reach the Lost from Your Pulpit | Pastoralized https://headhearthand.org/blog/2012/07/12/four-more-characteristics-of-evangelistic-preaching/#comment-6597 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:18:44 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=8520#comment-6597 [...] Four (More) Characteristics of Evangelistic Preaching var dd_offset_from_content = 37; var dd_top_offset_from_content = 0;While We're On The Topic: Be [...]

]]> By: Flora Compton https://headhearthand.org/blog/2012/07/12/four-more-characteristics-of-evangelistic-preaching/#comment-6547 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:40:57 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=8520#comment-6547 Yes, Calum MacLean was truly convicted,” Woe is me, if I preach not the Gospel”. He didn’t neglect the ‘head’ either. He encouraged me to read John Murray’s ‘Redemption Accomplished and Applied” as soon as I was converted and told me to underline what I did not understand and bring it to him. I could not have been nurtured and taught by more loving and faithful Christians than he and Sandra. I praise God for them.

]]> By: David Murray https://headhearthand.org/blog/2012/07/12/four-more-characteristics-of-evangelistic-preaching/#comment-6543 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:23:39 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=8520#comment-6543 I think you’re right, Flora, about the lack of emphasis on the law and sin. If there’s no problem, who needs a solution?

I didn’t know you were converted under Calum Maclean’s ministry in Lochcarron. He’s such a Gospel-centered man, in the best sense!

And yes, what a huge but blessed responsibility to preach the good news!

]]> By: Flora Compton https://headhearthand.org/blog/2012/07/12/four-more-characteristics-of-evangelistic-preaching/#comment-6536 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:36:35 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=8520#comment-6536 We are thankful for your emphasis on ‘heart’ as well as ‘head’ and ‘hand’ and that you have dealt with this issue of the lack of Evangelistic preaching. Most of the preaching in North American Reformed Churches is for the head. ‘Read’ lectures by ministers and note-taking by those who listen, give evidence of this. When your heart is truly gripped and convicted by the Holy Spirit, you don’t take notes! It is very sad that one has to go to a non-Reformed church to hear Evangelistic sermons.

My husband, David Compton,wrote on the thread after your first message. He preached the Gospel faithfully for close to fifty years. He is 81 now and doesn’t preach regularly but when he has preached lately he has been rebuked for defining clearly that ‘sin is any want of conformity or transgression of the Law of God’ as the Shorter Catechism states and preaching evangelisticaly. ‘We don’t need that’, he is told.

I was converted in one of the congregations you pastored in the Highland of Scotland under the ministry of Rev. Malcolm MacLean. I thought that I was a pretty good person until he preached on “God be merciful to me a sinner”, clearly defined what sin was and asked us to go home and pray, ” God show me myself”. I prayed that prayer and when I had a glimpse of how a Holy God saw me, I was afraid to sleep in case I woke up in Hell. What joy I experienced and continue to experience as I realised and continue to contemplate what Christ has done for me. Mr MacLean told me that he often felt like Satan was sitting on the corner of the pulpit trying to keep him from preaching like that!

What has happened to that kind of preaching – the preaching of John the Baptist, Peter on the day of Pentecost, Paul who could say,”Woe is me,if I preach not the Gospel’ and continue ‘We are ambassadors for Christ,as though God were pleading through us, we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God” 2 Corinthians 5:20?

I’m sure the “Evil one’ must be very happy to see Ministers of the Gospel taken up with Gender and Family issues etc. We listened to your own sermon on “The end has come’ and I know that for me, it has not only revitalized my gratitude and wonder at the mercy of God towards me but increased my burden for unconverted family members, neighbours and the ‘lost’ around me. What a fearful thing it will be to be separate from God and anything that is good for ever and ever. What a responsibility preachers have – they who have solemnly, before God, taken on the responsibility for never-dying souls!

Flora Compton ( for David and Flora Compton)

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