Ministers' (and all Christians') Call to Gracious Persuasion

When mustn't a minister or Christian argue, and why mustn't he be argumentative when he does? 2Timothy 2:23–26 looks forward to the second serial reading of in morning public worship on the coming Lord's Day. In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that a minister is a slave, put in place to teach opponents who are willing to hear it, in hope that God will grant them the repentance necessary to know and escape the Satanic danger that they are in.