Harry L. Reeder III > Quotes

“Nobody has to get "better" to come to Jesus.”
― Harry L. Reeder III, The Leadership Dynamic: A Biblical Model for Raising Effective Leaders

“The Word has the ability to “connect” with anyone anywhere because it is written by the One who created all of us and knows us better than we know ourselves. A”
― Harry L. Reeder III, From Embers to a Flame: How God Can Revitalize Your Church

“As John Stott writes: Expository preaching is a most exacting discipline. Perhaps that is why it is so rare. Only those will undertake it who are prepared to follow the example of the apostles and say, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the Word of God to serve tables. . . . We will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word” (Acts 6:2, 4). The systematic preaching of the Word is impossible without the systematic study of it. It will not be enough to skim through a few verses in daily Bible reading, nor to study a passage only when we have to preach from it. No. We must daily soak ourselves in the Scriptures. We must not just study, as through a microscope, the linguistic minutiae of a few verses, but take our telescope and scan the wide expanses of God’s Word, assimilating its grand theme of divine sovereignty in the redemption of mankind. “It is blessed,” wrote C. H. Spurgeon, “to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavoured with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you.”6 The”
― Harry L. Reeder III, From Embers to a Flame: How God Can Revitalize Your Church

“Genuine, effective leadership must be learned from God’s Word, nurtured in God’s church, and then transported into God’s world.”
― Harry L. Reeder III, 3D Leadership: Defining, Developing and Deploying Christian Leaders Who Can Change the World