Gentle correction
Richard Coekin
Date posted: 1 Jun 2017
Dear Readers of en,
I was very grateful for the kind commendation of my new book Gospel DNA on page
25 of your May 2017 edition by Pastor Mark
Troughton.
I appreciate
that his warm
approval was only well meant, but it was sufficiently over-generous for me to feel obliged
to
comment.
I would
like
to openly
acknowledge
the obvious but
important
truths that the 30 Co-mission ministries in
London that he mentions (19 established
churches and various pioneer ministries) are
attributable a) to the extraordinary grace of
our living Lord growing his churches by his
living Word; and b) to the collective efforts
of many servant-hearted leaders and congregation members across London. I raise this
because we are clear throughout Co-mission
not only that we are daily dependent upon
God, but also that if we fail to give him the
glory he deserves we may rightly face his discipline. For ‘neither he who plants nor he
who waters is anything but only God who
gives the growth’ (1 Corinthians 3).