1) Entertain
If people come up to you afterward and say, “I love that story you told,” it should make you crazy. Really, that’s what I am? I’m a storyteller? Christ’s gospel is the main story that you should be telling.
2) Share
Since when is the man of God some Dr. Phil and Oprah combo? You’re supposed to proclaim a message.
3) Woo
If you don’t have people walking away from your ministry saying, “This is a hard word, who can accept it?” then you don’t have a ministry like Jesus had.
4) Intellectualize
...preaching that stops at the shoulders is defective preaching. It has to move me—it has to call me to action—mind, emotions, and will. If you’re just preaching your theological construct, you’re blowing it.
5) Abbreviate
“The one who hears you,” Jesus said, “hears me.”
Yet there’s no pridefulness, is there? It’s so humbling. It’s a crushing weight, isn’t it?
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