“And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them.”- Mark 16:20

        Knowing “some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will” and others “of contention”, and “not sincerely”[1]; yet as an obedient soldier of Jesus Christ, being called to preach the word of God where others fear to stand, and God having “enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry”[2] of open air evangelism, “I am set for the defense of the gospel”[3], and with this Creed do stand and “earnestly contend for the faith  which was once delivered unto the saints.”[4]

• As a minister of God[5] I shall never be “ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.”[6]
• As a minister of God I shall never be “ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of …his prisoners”[7] who suffer unto bonds for the defense of the gospel of Christ.
• As a minister of God I shall endure hardness and never entangle myself with the affairs of this life; that I may please him who hath chosen me to be a soldier.”[8]
• As a minister of God I shall not compromise but strive lawfully[9] according to the word of God.
• As a minister of God I shall never forsake my “fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus”[10], or my “fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ”[11] in the face of an angry crowd.[12]
• As a minister of God I shall not regard “the person of men”[13] for favor, nor fear the face of any man to avoid conflict or harm.
• As a minister of God I shall reprove sin where I find it, and fear no man in so doing.
• As a minister of God I shall be “gentle unto all men”[14] by the Spirit of God[15], yet “strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might”.[16]
• As a minister of God I shall walk in constant communion with Jesus Christ the captain of my salvation[17], in “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man”.[18]
• As a minister of God I shall carry myself always as a man of God and for God, and shall in every burden laid upon me and in every fight brought to me be faithful unto death.
• As a minister of God I shall love Jesus Christ with all my heart, soul, mind and strength[19], and shall daily serve him with “gladness and singleness of heart”[20] and “humility of mind”.[21]
• As a minister of God I shall perform my duties to God in all “humbleness of mind”[22], and being “obedient unto death”[23] shall fashion myself “after God’s own heart”[24] in “righteousness and true holiness”.[25]
• As a minister of God, the honour of Jesus Christ and “the preaching of the gospel of Christ”[26] shall always be far greater than I in all things.
• As a minister of God I shall quit like a man.[27]