Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.