“Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict
your doctrine…lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues;
and be the greatest hinderers of the success of your own labours.” Or as Spurgeon puts it somewhere: it's a dreadful thing when people say, “Our minister undoes in the parlour what
he has done in the pulpit; he preaches very well, but his life does not agree
with his sermons.” This is very much in line with what St Paul says about how to have an effective and evangelistic ministry
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