My topic is the pastor as theologian, reflections on the life and ministry of Jonathan Edwards.

Multnomah press recently reissued a onwards. done it and I don't recommend the book I recommend the one that's downstairs that I'll show you

in a minute but they did get a good man to write the introduction for it. Charles

Coulson.

Here's what he writes.

The Western Church, much of it drifting, inculturated and infected with cheap grace, desperately needs to hear Jonathan Edwards challenge.

It is my belief that the prayers and work of those who love and obey Christ in our world may yet prevail as they keep the

message of such a man as Jonathan Edwards.

And I assume you're among the number who love and obey Christ and who long for your prayers to prevail in your churches and in your communities and ultimately in this world, Lord

willing, by the year 2000. And I believe that Coulson is right, that we very much need not only the message, that was his point,

mine is the life and example of Jonathan Edwards as a theologian pastor.

Now most of us do not know Jonathan Edwards. We might know that he was born in 1703 and that he went to Yale and became a pastor in Massachusetts for 23 years and then became a missionary to Indians for the last seven years or so of his life.

And then a few months as president of Princeton before he died at the age of 54.

But we don't know this man.

We do not know him.

We all remember our high school lit classes or our American history classes in ninth grade.

I got my son's ninth grade history book the other day and looked up Edwards he's not in the he's not in there period

So I looked up awakening there's one paragraph on the great awakening in this textbook and they define it as that

Heightening of religious fervor that split churches. That was the great awakening in my son's textbook. It's a great tragedy. He's at a

Christian school too, so that they might straighten it out in the classroom.

Here's what we read if we get an excerpt, namely sinners in the hands of an angry God, and this paragraph

perhaps. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire abhors you, and

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