Tell him you can read the morning paper and digest the television commentaries, and think through the day’s superficial problems ad infinitum, better than he can. Form a choir and raise a chant and haunt him with it night and day – “Sir, we would see Jesus”.Īnd when at long last he dares to assay the pulpit, ask him if he has a word from God. Laugh at his frustrated efforts to play the psychiatrist. Shame him for his good comprehension of finances, batting averages, and political in-fighting.
Humiliate him for his ignorance of things divine. And make him preach the Word of the living God! Give him a Bible and tie him to the pulpit. Burn up his ecclesiastical success sheets. Make him spend and be spent for the glory of God. And make him exchange his ‘pious stance’ for a humble walk with God and man. Wreck his emotional poise with worry for God. Bend his knees in the lonesome valley.īurn his eyes with weary study. Require him to have something to say before he dares break the silence. Stop his tongue forever tripping lightly over every nonessential. And let him come out only when he’s bruised and beaten into being a blessing. Engage him to wrestle with God all the night through. Lock him up with his books, his typewriter and his Bible.įorce him to be the one man in our surfeited communities who knows about God.
Tear the ‘office’ sign from the door and nail up the sign, ‘study’. What does it take to be effective in the preparation and delivery of sermons that bring glory to God and blessing to men? An unknown author penned the following stirring lines to answer this vital question:įling the preacher into his office.
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