OF WHITEFIELD'S MINISTRY

Terry Worthan

OF WHITEFIELD'S MINISTRY: The solid and lasting effects which accompanied Whitefield's ministry must be attributed (in the human sense) to the thoroughness of the methods he used in dealing with souls.

It must be explained that Whitefield made no appeal for people to make a public profession of salvation at his services. His practice (which had also been that of the Puritans) was one of making powerful application of the gospel as he preached and of therewith leaving the Word to become operative in the heart by the ministry of the Holy Spirit. He looked for the Spirit's work in arousing the sinner to a deep, and even overwhelming, sense of his need; but this work he called, not CONVERSION, but AWAKENING.

Terry Worthan is pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church
Winston, GA