Why did I choose Simpson as my Mentor?

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Why did I choose Simpson as my Mentor?

• Prof. Jintae Kim, Ph.D.
• Alliance Theological Seminary Nov 2, 2003

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His Strengths and Examples to Follow (7)

• Integrity
• Talents
• Vision-oriented ministry
• Passion Action

• Spiritual Experience
• Faith
• Lasting Legacy

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I. Integrity
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He was always Truthful in his life.

• His rebaptism and resignation from 13th St.
  Presb. Church and New York Presbytery.

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2. He did not seek his own financial gain.

• He refused to receive his salary when Chestnut
  St. Presb. Church began building project.
• He refused to receive his salary when Chestnut
  St. Presb. Church began building project.
• He did not draw salary when Gospel Tabernacle
  started.

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3. Humility

• No boasting
• on his healing experience
• or his talents.
• Refused to accept his honorary Doctoral degree.

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II. Talents
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Preacher and Pastor par excellence

• Thorough preparation, Eloquence, Biblical
  foundation
• Simpson made sure the services were anything but
  tiring to the public. Music played a key role.
  The pastor kept his sermons short and refused
  appeals for money.
• Also lacking any put-downs of other churches or
  groups.(52-53)

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2. Evangelist par excellence
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3. Poet Musician

• His poems and songs (about 350).

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4. Professor

• Nyack Missionary College

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5. Productive writer

• Mission magazine, Christ in the Bible series,
  Fourfold Gospel

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6. Magnetic Personality

• Drew high-caliber people from all backgrounds.

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7. Promoter of events

• 2 Alliances, Mission conventions, Friday
  meetings

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III. Vision-oriented Ministry
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One clear vision Divine Plan

• A Dynamic body of
• New Testament-type churches
• giving preeminence to Jesus Christ
• in personal experience (Holiness)
• and universal witness (Mission).
• Primary purpose
• Function of evangelism.

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IV. Passion Action

• He used
• all his talents and resources
• for achieving
• this one goal
• with utmost passion and zeal.
• His dream and Heart for the lost souls!

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Simpsons schedule (All for Jesus, 105)

• On a routine day he would board the 618 a.m.
  train at Nyack, using the one-hour trip to
  midtown Manhattan for studying and writing. After
  immersing himself in work all day at the
  West-Forty-fourth Street headquarters, he would
  return to Nyack for a late supper. Then it was
  off to an evening class up the hill and later to
  the room for more study and work (and ink spots?)
  until one or two oclock in the morning and all
  this by a man given up for dead by a competent
  physician just a few years before.

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Motivation (All for Jesus, 105)

• What impelled the Alliance founder was a sense of
  urgency that could well be summed up, All for
  Jesus. He once exclaimed Everything around us
  is intensely alive life is earnest death is
  earnest sin is earnest men are earnest
  business is earnest knowledge is earnest the
  age is earnest God forgive us if we alone are
  trifling in the white heat of this crisis time.

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• No time for trifling in this life of mine
• Not this the path the blessed Master trod,
• But strenuous toil each hour and power employed
• Always and all for God.
• Time swiftly flies eternity is near,
• And soon my dust may lie beneath the sod.
• How dare I waste my life or cease to be
• Always and all for God!
• I catch the meaning of this solemn age
• With lifes vast issues all my soul is awed.
• Life was not given for trifling it must be
• Always and all for God.
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V. Spiritual Experience
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His direct encounter with the risen Lord in his
experiences of sanctification and healing.
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VI. Faith
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1. Finance

• Finance was the last priority.
• Just as in business anything
• that was worth succeeding
• always found people enough to sustain it so in
  the work of God,
• if anything was worth doing,
• God would see that it was supported.

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2. Everything starts with prayer and reliance on
Christ.
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3. The source of his strength Faith (All for
Jesus, 132)

• To those who in amazement asked how he could
  do is, Dr. Simpson had an unvarying reply There
  is no service which God expects of us for which
  He has not made the fullest provision in the
  infinite resources of His grace. We cannot dare
  too much if it be in dependence upon Him, for He
  has given us all His fullness, and sends no one
  warring upon his own charges.

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VII. Lasting Legacy
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• His work became a movement that goes far beyond
  his worthy efforts and grows unchecked by his
  passing from the scene (All For Jesus, xi). The
  work that began in Simpsons heart has grown into
  one of the more significant missionary forces of
  modern church history, while in North America its
  impact grows by the year (ibid., xii).