I STARTED READING THIS
And It Changed My Preaching And Writing
The great preachers and writers have almost one thing in common.
In Bible College, they don’t really emphasize this, and that’s probably because they’re dealing with 18-22 year olds that don’t know their head from a hole in the ground.
So they teach a lot of Bible classes and ministry or leadership stuff. All of this is extremely useful, but it doesn’t separate the men from the boys.
And to be honest, perhaps not everyone has the mind for this.
And this is why not everyone should preach, because preaching is not merely getting up and sharing a story about your kid and then telling everyone a Scripture.
Much of our preaching today is devotional. It’s erratic, disjointed, and full of stories.
But the great preachers—I’m thinking of Tim Keller—do something very differently.
They unpack a passage with such ease that you feel like you see it the way it should be seen for the first time.
Great teachers and preachers introduce a concept to you that is hidden in plain sight in the text, and they do so without parsing the Greek—although they will have already done that for you. They’ve hit the books.
But the really great teachers and preachers are well-versed in and extrapolate upon this one thing:
