The Dynamics of Preaching by Warren W. Wiersbe

Author:Warren W. Wiersbe [Wiersbe, Warren W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Preaching, Christian Ministry, Religion, Christian
ISBN: 9780801090899
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Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 1999-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Not only must God’s Word enrich our hearts (Col. 3:16), but our studies must also enrich our minds. Preachers must be readers and should read widely and not just for message preparation. Since all truth is God’s truth and all truth intersects, any subject we study can throw light on the Bible, the people we’re working with, the ministry we do, or life itself. “Reading maketh a full man,”[6] wrote Frances Bacon, and you need to be full to experience overflow.

However, there’s a difference between diligent preachers who grow because they read and “bookish” preachers who read but don’t grow. All they do is “swell” and bore people with what they think they know. Bookish preachers impress you with what they claim they’ve read but they don’t come across as people who have assimilated what they’ve read and made it a part of life and ministry. They tell you they keep up with all the best-sellers, as though that were important, but they aren’t always acquainted with the classics, the books of the ages that will outlast the books of the hour. The poet Alexander Pope described this kind of person in his “Essay on Criticism” as

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,

With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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