http://sbcvoices.com/a-word-to-young-preachers/ Southern Baptist News & Opinion Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://sbcvoices.com/a-word-to-young-preachers/#comment-6819 Dr. James Willingham Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:10:20 +0000 http://sbcvoices.com/a-word-to-young-preachers/#comment-6819 I tried my best to put this on Dr. Moore's site, but the web blocked it, no matter what I did. Here is what I want to say: I had to laugh. How true and to the point and accurate are Dr. Moore's observations about preachers and preaching. What gets me, however, is how difficult it is to get a really good sermon from the Lord, frm horrendous study and note taking and prayer. Even more to the point is how really good preachers can lay some bad eggs. I remember hearing one preach three tmes at a conference many years ago. His first sermon was excellent, uplifting, inspiring, everything one could desire in a message. The second was a take it or leave it sermon. The third was a dud, and the crowd had fried preacher with their meal. I can remember hearing preachers at a nearby table in the dining hall just a fussin' up a storm. We all have our days of miserable flops, but O the times of success. How sweet they are. They can even come in a poor or mediocre message. One came in a sermon on gratitude (txt I th.5:18) that I preached, one of your usual, run-of-the-mill Sunday Morning messages, an everyday sort of thing, but God was pleased to bless it with a son who entered the ministry. His comment after the service was: "If you had gone another verse of invitation I would have rededicated my life." (I had only given a two-verse invitation and as no one came, I didn't want to run the invitation into the ground). It didn't matter; he not only rededicated his life, he answered the call to the ministry. Talk about joy. I could cry tears of joy every time, when I think of that result. .-= Dr. James Willingham´s last blog ..<a href="http://thirdgreatawakeningcom.blogspot.com/2009/02/climax-of-reformation.html" rel="nofollow">The Climax of the Reformation</a> =-. I tried my best to put this on Dr. Moore’s site, but the web blocked it, no matter what I did. Here is what I want to say:
I had to laugh. How true and to the point and accurate are Dr. Moore’s observations about preachers and preaching. What gets me, however, is how difficult it is to get a really good sermon from the Lord, frm horrendous study and note taking and prayer. Even more to the point is how really good preachers can lay some bad eggs. I remember hearing one preach three tmes at a conference many years ago. His first sermon was excellent, uplifting, inspiring, everything one could desire in a message. The second was a take it or leave it sermon. The third was a dud, and the crowd had fried preacher with their meal. I can remember hearing preachers at a nearby table in the dining hall just a fussin’ up a storm. We all have our days of miserable flops, but O the times of success. How sweet they are. They can even come in a poor or mediocre message. One came in a sermon on gratitude (txt I th.5:18) that I preached, one of your usual, run-of-the-mill Sunday Morning messages, an everyday sort of thing, but God was pleased to bless it with a son who entered the ministry. His comment after the service was: “If you had gone another verse of invitation I would have rededicated my life.” (I had only given a two-verse invitation and as no one came, I didn’t want to run the invitation into the ground). It didn’t matter; he not only rededicated his life, he answered the call to the ministry. Talk about joy. I could cry tears of joy every time, when I think of that result.
.-= Dr. James Willingham´s last blog ..The Climax of the Reformation =-.

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