Reminder of the Imperative of Study for Pulpit Ministry
J. H. Jowett wrote after observing ministers:
"...I do not know what time ministers here spend in their studies. They are evidently engaged in a hundred outside works that must leave them very little time to prepare their message. I am going to stand steadily against this pressure, even at the cost of being misunderstood.... If the pulpit it to be occupied by men with a message worth hearing we must have the time to prepare it. I feel the preaching of the Word of God is incomparably my first work in New York." (quoted in On Being a Pastor, Prime & Begg, p. 107).
posted by Dan Pritchett @ 6:45 AM
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I agree that my first job should be my pulpit ministry. Now you just have to convince the people, the elders and all the others that if your not with them. then your not doing your job. Look at some of our own FGBC churches. their have become places of entertainment, the pulpit has become a side show. something that if the powerpoint works and the music lets you. you might actual speak from.
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