By Arturo G. Azurdia III
Mentor/Christian Focus. 192 pages . £9.99
ISBN 185792413 4
Directed at preachers, this is a most competent, humbling and forceful book. Arturo Azurdia has been the minister of a growing church in San Francisco for over ten years and here he brings to the reader the fruit of both his study and experience.
Basing his argument on a sound Reformed view of God and of fallen human nature, the burden of his message is of the absolute necessity of the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish the purpose of preaching. The book begins by showing us the Spirit as the divine communicator whose great work is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ - not the preacher. Preaching, in its various forms, has always been God's method of bringing salvation. The message of the cross is foolishness to blind, spiritually dead sinners, and only the Spirit can open their eyes and bring life in Christ.
