A faithful minister of Christ is one that sincerely desires His Master's glory, not his own. He delivers the whole counsel of God, not his own theories and ideas. He proclaims the pure gospel of grace, not a watered-down counterfeit that appeases the flesh. He boldly declares that salvation, from beginning to end, is of God, and of Him only. He sets forth the unchanging truth of God without apology. He always points His hearers to the Lord Jesus, the only Savior of sinners. His message can be condensed into these words of another preacher of days gone by, "We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord" (2 Corinthians 4:5).