Our work as evangelists and pastors is to have a single-mindedness like the saints who preceded us. We are the waiters. As preachers of the unsearchable riches, we are not called to be inventors or even innovators. We are called to be proclaimers of what has already been written. It is the working of the basics which will fulfill our ministry and further the kingdom.
Most churches are, at best, reaching the children and close relatives of church members.
He goes on to validate the practices of the 1950's when preaching, Sunday School, prayer and visitation were the characteristics of our growing churches. In other words, single-mindedness. Our work also calls us to preach without apology the salvation of the scriptures . It saves to the utmost. It is all sufficient.