The work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and the most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called. . . the most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and the most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously the greatest need of the world also.
If you are a preacher, join us for the Expositor’s Summit at Southern Seminary, where we seek to fan the flames of your passion, to strengthen the connections in your thinking, and to help you grow in your ability to preach the whole counsel of God.
If you are a layperson who doesn’t preach, you could still benefit from this conference:
- you may serve on a search committee for a new pastor;
- you may encourage other members of the congregation to think well about what preaching ought to be;
- you may encourage your pastor to do the real thing, preach, spurring him to shun the knockoffs and cheap imitations of true proclamation.
Will you join us for the Expositor’s Summit? If you can’t, please do pray the Lord to move in hearts, minds, words, and study.
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RT @DrJimHamilton: Today is the early registration deadline for the Expositor’s Summit @SBTS http://t.co/7gkN3tyK42
RT @DrJimHamilton: Expositor’s Summit at SBTS: Lloyd Jones is right:
The work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and the… http:…
RT @DrJimHamilton: Expositor’s Summit at SBTS: Lloyd Jones is right:
The work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and the… http:…
RT @DrJimHamilton: Expositor’s Summit at SBTS: Lloyd Jones is right:
The work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and the… http:…
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Had to respond…don’t even know why I just saw this on facebook…but not sure this has been thought out…
“The work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and the most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called…”
Who was greater David or Samuel who annointed him? David got way more print, was he “greater?”…how many of the disciples do we know for sure would be considered “preachers” like we know them today?
What about the calling for all of us to “be holy?”
What about the calling to raise kids to “Love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength?”
There’s an arrogance among many clergy today that’s appalling to those who get in the “inner circle”.
What the church needs is not more arrogant preachers who think they are special what we need is more preachers who live out the gospel by engaging the lost and modeling true discipleship. I can list several “strong” preachers who don’t know any lost people personally and wouldn’t know the first thing about engaging them in conversation and life. Many work at our leading theological institutions. I guess we should change the great commission to go and make “preachers” instead of disciples.
Paul mentions several times warning us to not think more highly of ourselves than we ought. The truth is and today’s church statistics will bear it out, many preachers preach, but they are professional clergy and not personally reaching the lost. So how do we expect our church members to reach out, if our “preachers” don’t live that example out before their flock.
Godly men and women who are engaging the lost on a daily basis are having a greater long term impact than most of today’s preachers.
So are those who are called to equip less significant than those who are called to preach?
Sounds like we would tell Godly businessmen and women that their profession isn’t noble and worthy of a significant blessing, because that is reserved for “preachers”. Really?
Just strikes me as disconnected theology….