Baxter's charge to ministers (1656) on Acts 20:28: first guard your own soul, then the flock — above all through personal, household-by-household catechising, as he practised in Kidderminster. "Reformed" means renewed, not a denomination.
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D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones's lectures on preaching, given at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, in 1969 after thirty years at Westminster Chapel, London (published 1971): why preaching is the church's primary task, the preacher's call and preparation, the sermon, the congregation, and the power of the Spirit.
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Toward a Missional Church (2015) by Chinese New Testament scholar Che-Bin Tan: from the Gospels, Acts and Paul, mission not as one programme among many but as the church's very nature — applied to the realities of Chinese churches today.