Continuing per James Bratt,
The preacher on Kuyper's model was to regard the assembly as a redeemed people of God and not as sinners in need of salvation. ... The Lord's Day was not the time for revivals, altar calls, or seeker services. The preacher's purpose was to promote sanctification [and] to undertake the long-term pastoral labor that grew from a close understanding of his flock's spiritual condition ... .
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