Why must preachers call sinners to repent immediately if fallen people cannot come to Christ without grace?
In Episode 50, John-Mark and Oliver Allmand-Smith are joined by Dr Robert Strivens, Director of the Reformed Baptist Study Centre, to discuss Andrew Fuller and the duty of calling all people to immediate repentance and faith.
Drawing on Fuller’s The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation, Robert explains the difference between physical and guilty moral inability, Fuller’s answer to hyper-Calvinism, and how God uses gospel preaching to bring sinners to Christ.
Robert then distils Fuller’s concluding reflections into seven lessons for evangelistic preaching. Ministers must preach without discrimination, direct sinners away from themselves and towards Christ, urge and plead rather than merely explain, call for genuine conversion rather than outward reform, and leave every hearer in no doubt of their duty to repent and believe now.
EPISODE RESOURCES
Robert’s article, “Andrew Fuller and the Call to Immediate Repentance”:
https://rbstudycentre.com/andrew-fuller-and-the-call-to-immediate-repentance-lessons-for-evangelistic-preaching-today/
The Reformed Baptist Study Centre:
https://rbstudycentre.com/
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CHAPTERS
00:00 – The Duty to Repent
00:53 – Welcome to Episode 50
01:19 – The Reformed Baptist Study Centre
03:26 – Study Without Dry Orthodoxy
06:04 – Andrew Fuller and Serious Learning
07:15 – Who Was Andrew Fuller?
09:47 – The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation
12:43 – Moral and Physical Inability
16:07 – Fuller, Missions and the Free Offer
17:54 – Preaching as God’s Appointed Means
23:42 – Seven Lessons for Gospel Preaching
27:30 – Trust Christ, Not Merely Truths
29:40 – Pleading, Not Merely Explaining
32:13 – Duty, Delight and the Sin of Unbelief
35:32 – The Call to Immediate Repentance
40:10 – Robert’s Article and Listener Discount
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