Calvin's advice to ministers, given in his commentary on 1 Corinthains is needed as much today as it was back then. Pride and self ambition puts a preacher in hall of mirrors where all they see and think about is themselves. Even when they preach using the name of Jesus, it's to see how they are doing. How aweful, how divisive, and how this has damaged the church.
Here is what Calvin said.
"The aim of good ministers is this, that they may all in common serve Christ, and claim for him exclusively power, authority, and glory - fight under his banner - obey him alone, and bring others in subjection to his sway. If any one is influenced by ambition, that man gathers disciples, not to Christ, but to himself…In short, the unity of the church consists more especially in this one thing - that we all depend upon Christ alone, and that men thus occupy an inferior place, so as not to detract in any degree from his (Jesus') pre-eminence." John Calvin. Commentary on 1 Corinthians. Pg, 66-67.
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