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title: 'John McKnight, Jr.: “A Praying People Makes a Preaching Minister”'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-08-31
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-john-mcknight-jr-a-praying-people-makes-a-preaching-minister
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# John McKnight, Jr.: “A Praying People Makes a Preaching Minister”

“No maxim is more true than that familiar one — *a praying people makes a preaching minister*. If then, you would have your pastor come to you with sermons, full of thoughts that pierce and words that burn, PRAY FOR HIM:— pray affectionately, earnestly, continuously.” — John McKnight, Jr. (1789-1857), Charge to the Church and Congregation at the Ordination of Andrew Harris, Pastor of the Second African Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia (1841)