---
title: 'The Minister, the Man of One Book'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Elliott Speer'
date: 1948-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Bible and Canon'
- 'Pastoral Theology'
scriptures:
- 'Luke 24'
- 'Psalms 22'
- 'John 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/speer-1948-the-minister-the-man-of-one-book
---

# The Minister, the Man of One Book

Argues that ministers should be 'men of one Book' — the Bible — as God's self‑revelation, the only true biography of Christ, the source of prayer and inner life, and the guide for ministry.

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