Peter Masters

Peter Masters has been the Minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle (Spurgeon's) in central London since 1970.^[1][2]

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Sword and Trowel

He edits the international magazine 'Sword & Trowel' (started by Spurgeon in 1865).

London Reformed Baptist Seminary

He initiated and directs the studies of aspiring pastors in the Tabernacle's adjunct seminary.^[3]

Authorship and broadcasts

He has authored more than twenty-five books, which have been translated into at least 23 other languages. These include Amharic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Maltese, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Shona, Slovak, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.^[4] His television and radio sermons are aired in the UK, and in the USA.

Distinctive ministerial emphases

The necessity of regular Gospel preaching

He has repeatedly lobbied for the necessity of distinctive and frequent evangelistic addresses, and lamented the loss of this basic duty amongst evangelical ministers.^[5] His own church has a specific evangelistic service at 6.30PM on Sundays.

Separatism

By calling other ministers to remember and consider the Downgrade Controversy, Peter Masters has advocated a duty of ministerial separation from churches which have defected from basic precepts of historical evangelical doctrine, like the necessity of regeneration, justification by faith without works, or the infallibility and sufficiency of the Bible for church rule.^[6] In this he has repeated the call of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, in his controversy with John Stott, to separate from non-evangelical churches, and followed in the tradition of E. J. Poole-Connor, the original founder of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches.

Charismatic movement

He has opposed and challenged the teaching of the Charismatic Movement that New Testament sign gifts are still extant, arguing that the Bible contains the promise that it is both sufficient and complete, rendering new revelation both redundant and dangerous.^[7] This position has been described as cessationist. He has, upon the same grounds, critiqued claims of the gift of miraculous healing as spurious, lacking credibility and sometimes occultic.^[8][9]

Young Earth Creationist

He opposes Neo-Darwinian evolution, which evangelicals have seen historically as a form of humanist propaganda,^[1][2] and as a doctrine viewed as wholly at variance with the first books of the Bible. He helped found the Newton Scientific Association, and has supported lectures and talks examining weaknesses of the theory.

Selected works currently in print

• Healing Epidemic, Feb 1988 (ISBN 978-1-870855-00-6)
• Charismatic Phenomenon, Jun 1988 (ISBN 978-1-870855-01-3)
• Necessity of Sunday Schools: In This Post-Christian Era, Sep 1992 (ISBN 978-1-870855-13-6)
• Should Christians Drink?: The Case for Total Abstinence, Sep 1992 (ISBN 978-1-870855-12-9)
• Biblical Strategies for Witness, 1 Dec 1994 (ISBN 978-1-870855-18-1)
• Only One Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Feb 1995 (ISBN 978-1-870855-17-4)
• The Baptist Confession of Faith 1689: Or, the Second London Confession with Scripture Proofs, Revised edition,1998 (ISBN 978-1-870855-24-2)
• Do We Have a Policy?: Paul's Ten Point Policy for Church Health and Growth, 4 Feb 2002 (ISBN 978-1-870855-30-3)
• Worship in the Melting Pot, 1 July 2002 (ISBN 978-1-870855-33-4)
• Physicians of Souls: The Gospel Ministry, 21 Oct 2002 (ISBN 978-1-870855-34-1)
• The Lord's Pattern for Prayer, 30 Jun 2003 (ISBN 978-1-870855-36-5)
• God's Rules for Holiness: Unlocking the Ten Commandments, 30 Nov 2003 (ISBN 978-1-870855-37-2)
• Men of Purpose, Latest edition, 8 Dec 2003 (ISBN 978-1-870855-41-9)
• Heritage of Evidence: In the British Museum, 4 May 2004 (ISBN 978-1-870855-39-6)
• The Mutual Love of Christ and His People, 1 July 2004 (ISBN 978-1-870855-40-2)
• Not Like Any Other Book: Interpreting the Bible, 6 Dec 2004 (ISBN 978-1-870855-43-3)
• Joshua's Conquest: Was It Moral? And What Does It Say to Us Today?, 9 Nov 2005 (ISBN 978-1-870855-46-4)
• Missionary Triumph Over Slavery: William Knibb and Jamaican Emancipation, 7 July 2006 (ISBN 978-1-870855-53-2)
• The Faith, Great Christian Truths, 12 Dec 2006 (ISBN 978-1-870855-54-9)
• Men of Destiny, 6th edition, 9 Jan 2008 (ISBN 978-1-870855-55-6)
• Steps for Guidance in the Journey of Life, 26 Nov 2008 (ISBN 978-1-870855-66-2)

References

External links

• The Metropolitan Tabernacle's website
• The Tabernacle Bookshop
• London Reformed Baptist Seminary
• 'Dr. Peter Masters on Secondary Separation', Johnson D., Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International , Proclaim and Defend, 6 August 2013
• 'A Call to Separation and Unity: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones and “Evangelical Unity”', Sidwell M, Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, Fall 1998, pp. 35–62