A bishop with a strategy for the evangelisation of their diocese! Yes indeed, the inimitable JC Ryle, first bishop of Liverpool. His ministry provokes many questions.
What marks a truly Reformed minister of the gospel? How do you become an impotent waste of a clergyman? Have you got a strategy for ministry or are you merely faffing in the shallow end?
This essay by Andrew Atherstone is simply wonderful and could not be more vital. It will stir the heart and get you really excited about ministry. Ryle’s strategy makes sense, is thoroughly biblical and rooted in Evangelical church history. Whilst we might be tempted to think that it is advice from yesteryear for yesteryear let me remind you of Ryle’s context as became Bishop of Liverpool. Read more
See also
J.C. Ryle's Evangelistic Strategy
"J.C. Ryle's Evangelistic Strategy" is the essay to which Rob Brewis points our attention in his article for Church Society. J.C. Ryle was no ordinary bishop. He was the leading Anglican Evangelical of his day. He championed the maintenance of the Protestant, Reformed, and evangelical character of the Church of England against the Tractarians and Ritualists who sought to undo the English Reformation and change the identity of the Church of England.
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