IntroductIon - Chambers, Oswald

Source
These lectures were given to students in the sermon class at the Bible Training College,1 London, from 1911 to 1915.
Publication History
• As articles: These lectures were published in the BTC Monthly Journal, May 1932–March 1934.2
• As a book: The material was first published in 1936.
• Facing Reality (© 1939) was incorporated in the 1946 and later editions

Chambers limited the BTC 3 sermon classes to enrolled students only and allowed no visitors. Since sermon preparation and delivery were course require-ments, he wanted all class members on an equal footing as participants, with no idle observers and critics. Much more than a course on how to prepare and deliver sermons, these lectures reveal Chambers’heart concerning being a worker for God. To these students Chambers said: “Here in this College, God can break or bend or mould, just as He chooses. You do not know why He is doing it; He is doing it for one purpose only, that He may be able to say, ‘This is My man, My woman.’”