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Peter Masters has been the Minister of the
Metropolitan Tabernacle The Metropolitan Tabernacle is a large independent Reformed Baptist church in the Elephant and Castle in London. It was the largest non-conformist church of its day in 1861. The Tabernacle Fellowship have been worshipping together since 1650. ...
( Spurgeon's) in central London since 1970. He started the
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, an evangelical conservative newspaper. He directs the School of Theology, an annual conference for pastors and Christian workers.


Sword and Trowel

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


London Reformed Baptist Seminary

He initiated the London Reformed Seminary in 1976 and directs the further studies of both pastors and aspiring pastors in the Tabernacle's adjunct seminary. The seminary went online from 2011.London Reformed Baptist Seminary official website
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Authorship

He has authored 28 books, which have been translated into at least 28 other languages.


Broadcasts

His sermons have been broadcast in the UK since 2003 on the Sky channel UCB. In 2013 it transferred to the Sky channel Revelation TV, it is broadcast every Saturday evening. These broadcasts include a sermon from Masters and an accompanying apologetic or biographical feature. Current UK channels are Sky Channel 581, Freeview HD Channel 241 and Freesat Channel 692. Programmes are also broadcast on a number of overseas radio stations including in New Zealand and the US.


Distinctive ministerial emphases


The necessity of regular Gospel preaching

He has lobbied for the necessity of distinctive and frequent evangelistic addresses, and lamented the loss of this amongst evangelical ministers.


Separatism

By calling other ministers to remember and consider the Downgrade Controversy, Masters has advocated a duty of ministerial separation from churches that do not follow the major principles of historical evangelical doctrine, such as the necessity of regeneration, justification by faith without works, and belief in infallibility of the Bible. In this he has repeated the call of
Martyn Lloyd-Jones David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) was a Welsh Protestant minister and medical doctor who was influential in the Calvinist wing of the British evangelical movement in the 20th century. For almost 30 years, he was the minister of Westminste ...
, in his controversy with
John Stott John Robert Walmsley Stott (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was an English Anglican cleric and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In ...
, to separate from non-evangelical churches, and followed in the tradition of E. J. Poole-Connor, the founder of the
Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) is a network of 639 independent, evangelical churches mainly in the United Kingdom that preach an evangelical faith. History The FIEC was formed in 1922 under the name ''A Fellowship ...
.


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. This view has been described as
cessationist Cessationism versus continuationism involves a Christian theological dispute as to whether spiritual gifts remain available to the church, or whether their operation ceased with the Apostolic Age of the church (or soon thereafter). The cessation ...
. He has, upon the same grounds, critiqued claims of the gift of miraculous healing as spurious, lacking credibility and sometimes occultic.


Young Earth Creationist

He opposes Darwinism, which some evangelicals have seen historically as a form of humanist propaganda, and as a doctrine viewed as at variance with the first books of the Bible. He helped found the Newton Scientific Association, and has supported lectures and talks examining alleged weaknesses of the theory of evolution.


Selected works currently in print

* ''Healing Epidemic'', 1988 () * ''Necessity of Sunday Schools: In This Post-Christian Era'', 1992 () * ''Should Christians Drink?: The Case for Total Abstinence'', 1992 () * ''Biblical Strategies for Witness'', 1994 () * ''Only One Baptism of the Holy Spirit'', 1995 () * ''The Baptist Confession of Faith 1689: Or, the Second London Confession with Scripture Proofs'', Revised edition, 1998 () * ''Do We Have a Policy?: Paul's Ten Point Policy for Church Health and Growth'', 2002 () * ''Worship in the Melting Pot'', 2002 () * ''Physicians of Souls: The Gospel Ministry'', 2002 () * ''The Lord's Pattern for Prayer'', 2003 () * ''God's Rules for Holiness: Unlocking the Ten Commandments'', 2003 () * ''Men of Purpose'', Latest edition, 2003 () * ''Heritage of Evidence: In the British Museum'', 2004 () * ''The Mutual Love of Christ and His People'', 2004 () * ''Not Like Any Other Book: Interpreting the Bible'', 2004 () * ''Joshua's Conquest: Was It Moral? And What Does It Say to Us Today?'' 2005 () * ''Missionary Triumph Over Slavery: William Knibb and Jamaican Emancipation'', 2006 () * ''The Faith, Great Christian Truths'', 2006 () * ''Men of Destiny'', 6th edition, 2008 () * ''Steps for Guidance in the Journey of Life'', 2008 () * ''Church Membership in the Bible,'' 2008 () * ''Faith, Doubts, Trials and Assurance'', 2006, () * ''World Dominion: The High Ambition of Reconstructionism critique'' 1990, () * ''Psalms & Hymns of Reformed Worship'' (editor), 1991 * ''The Personal Spiritual Life'', 2013 () * ''The Charismatic Illusion'', 2016 () * ''Charismatic Phenomenon'', Jun 1988 () * ''The Preacher’s Library,'' 1979 () * ''Remember the Prisoners,'' 1986 ()


References


External links


The Metropolitan Tabernacle's website

The Tabernacle Bookshop
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