My Homiletic Swimming Pool, Timothy Tow - Online Christian Library

Chapter I
Homiletics : Teaching and Learning How to
Preach
In order to perpetuate the preaching of the Gospel, Paul writes
his successor Timothy, “And the things that thou hast heard of me
among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who
shall be able to teach others also.” (2 Tim 2:2). Not only by mandate
are Paul’s teachings to be passed from teacher to pupil, generation
after generation, the Apostle also sets the pattern by teaching a Bible
School in Ephesus for two years, “ ... so that all they which dwelt in
Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks” (Acts
19:10). As a result of this on-going process, five new churches
sprang up in the list of seven churches in Asia to which our Lord
would write (Rev 1:11). They are Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira,
Sardis and Philadelphia. With the rise of these new churches, the
Gospel was bound to spread to other cities, towns, villages, even
unto the uttermost part of the earth.
By way of testimony I was the first to secure a sound theological
education from Faith Seminary in the United States. After I returned
to Singapore in 1950 to establish an English Service for our
Teochew-speaking mother church at Prinsep Street, I realised the
imperative of founding a Bible College to train younger people that
they in turn should become preachers of the Word. As a result Far
Eastern Bible College was established in 1962. Since then we have
trained over 350 pastors, teachers, missionaries, etc. during the last
36 years. Thus the Gospel is able to go forward, from strength to
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