The Duty of Faith: Andrew Fuller on Repentance, Faith, and Evangelical Preaching – Ft. Robert Strivens

Why must preachers call sinners to repent immediately if fallen people cannot come to Christ without grace?

In Episode 50, John-Mark and Oliver Allmand-Smith are joined by Dr Robert Strivens, Director of the Reformed Baptist Study Centre, to discuss Andrew Fuller and the duty of calling all people to immediate repentance and faith.

Drawing on Fuller’s The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation, Robert explains the difference between physical and guilty moral inability, Fuller’s answer to hyper-Calvinism, and how God uses gospel preaching to bring sinners to Christ.

Robert then distils Fuller’s concluding reflections into seven lessons for evangelistic preaching. Ministers must preach without discrimination, direct sinners away from themselves and towards Christ, urge and plead rather than merely explain, call for genuine conversion rather than outward reform, and leave every hearer in no doubt of their duty to repent and believe now.