I have long grown
accustomed to the understanding that very few people really understand what is
involved in truly good preaching. Not
motivational, encouraging, self-help ‘grab yourself by the bootstraps’ and just
do it preaching but heart-felt, Scripturally-driven, Holy-Spirit anointed
preaching. It is this kind of preaching
that not only will the preacher know that he has been on fire for God but the
hearers of that message will realize that it is far more than just a time block
that has been filled with religious routine.
But the challenge from getting to from a simple biblical text to that
point of powerfully speaking for God has a lot of hindrances, snares, and traps
that every preacher will at some point find in his sermon preparation. Because I have now been preaching for almost
thirty years, I find one of those ways that I can improve is to read books
about preaching.
