PREACHING STYLE

In a sermon, Greek and Hebrew are like underwear: they add a lot of support, but you don’t want to let them show.1067

The story has been told of a young pastor who with great concern and sincerity ended his sermon like this: “And now, my friends, if you do not believe these truths, there may be for you grave eschatological consequences.”

Afterward a layman went to him and asked, “Did you mean that they would be in danger of hell?”

“Why, yes,” the preacher said.

“Then why in the world didn’t you say so?” the layman asked.1068