Top Ten Things For Preachers to Avoid
It’s ages since I’ve posted anything new on the site. I have been manically busy in recent days with a week long stint preaching at a Bible Week in Northern Ireland and then straight home, with a 10 minute turn around, before heading to Ayrshire where I had the privilege of speaking at a Church Anniversary weekend. Not to mention normal lecture preparation etc! It’s been exhausting but an enormous privilege and joy and I can’t think of anything I would rather be doing.
Now - I would love some input from my blog readers. In about 3 weeks I am doing a talk to some Christian workers and have been asked to speak on ‘The Top Ten Things for Preachers to Avoid’. If you were drawing up such a list, what would you include and why?
All contributions very welcome, either via the comments or by email to john(at)thebrands.org.uk
A Prayer of George Whitefield:
““Yea…that we shall see the great Head of the Church once more . . . raise up unto Himself certain young men whom He may use in this glorious employ. And what manner of men will they be? Men mighty in the Scriptures, their lives dominated by a sense of the greatness, the majesty and holiness of God, and their minds and hearts aglow with the great truths of the doctrines of grace. They will be men who have learned what it is to die to self, to human aims and personal ambitions; men who are willing to be ‘fools for Christ’s sake’, who will bear reproach and falsehood, who will labor and suffer, and whose supreme desire will be, not to gain earth’s accolades, but to win the Master’s approbation when they appear before His awesome judgment seat. They will be men who will preach with broken hearts and tear-filled eyes, and upon whose ministries God will grant an extraordinary effusion of the Holy Spirit, and who will witness ‘signs and wonders following’ in the transformation of multitudes of human lives.”
