Testimonials
From: Ross Hawthorne (Adherent)
"In the early 1980s my grandmother invited me along to hear Mr Gear preach on prophecy. I went along. I liked his method of preaching. There was a group who used to come up from Dunedin as well. Any friends that I managed to get to come along agreed that he had the gift of preaching. Even the hymns we sang were linked to the subject of the sermon. I attended a weekly study and Mr Gear explained the mystery of Ephesians. After the study Mrs Gear turned to me and said “ I suppose that this is all a bit strange to you” but I told that it all made perfect sense. After 2 years of attending the fellowship I was talking with a Baptist of 10 years. He couldn’t get over how I knew the bible so well in such a short time. I had learnt a lot more in 2 years by being under Mr Gear’s teaching than he had in 10 years. Mr Gear believed that it was a calling to be a preacher and believed it was the duty of a preacher to teach which is a failure of most preachers today.
Mr Gear never deviated from his ministry and remained completely faithful to the Lord. The study that I have called “From Grief to Grace: has been a work of about 20 years (not continually) and much of it is based on what Mr Gear taught.
All those years of teaching to our congregation in a small hall, we never imagined that one day these sermons would be available to people throughout the world via the internet. Now that they are, it is my prayer that they will be as much of a blessing to you all, as they were to us".
Yours in our Gracious Head.
Ross Hawthorne