Your Preaching Is Unique
Warren W. Wiersbe
July 1, 1981
It really doesn't make sense!"
That statement was made to me by a pastor friend about a dozen years ago. We were lingering over our lunchtime coffee and discussing the Bible conference I was conducting in his church. I'd just commented that the church was having a strong influence on the students and staff of the nearby university.
"What doesn't make sense?" I asked. "Where you and I are serving/' he replied. "That, you are going to have to explain." "Look, I'm really a country preacher with a minimum of academic training, yet I'm ministering to a university crowd. You write books, and you read more books in a month than I do in a year; yet your congregation is primarily blue-collar and nonprofes-sional. It doesn't make sense."
The subject then changed, but I have pondered his observation many times in the intervening years. I've concluded it's a good thing God didn't put me on his "Pastor Placement Committee" because I would have really messed things up. I'd never have sent rustic Amos to the affluent court of the king; I'd have given him a quiet country church somewhere. And I'd never have commissioned Saul of Tarsus, that "Hebrew of the Hebrews," to be a missionary to the Gentiles; I'd have put him in charge of Jewish evangelism in Jerusalem.
All of which brings me to the point of this article:
If God has called you to preach, then who you are, what you are, and where you are also must be a part of God's plan. You do not preach in spite of this, but because of this.
Why is it, then, that so many preachers do not enjoy preaching? Why do some busy themselves in minor matters when they should be studying and meditating? Why do others creep out of the pulpit after delivering their sermon, overwhelmed with a sense of failure and ...
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