Nonchalant Preaching

For some sixty-five years now I have observed preachers and their preaching. There seems to me to be a great void in many a pulpit today. The single word I would use to describe this missing ingredient is intensity.

I once heard a well known evangelist preach a memorized sermon while looking out a window ninety percent of the time. This type of detached preaching is a disgrace to the ministry. Casual sermons produce that kind of saints.

The old Methodist preacher, Fighting’ Bob Shuler, on one instance introduced my mentor, Dr. Joe Henry Hankins, as “A steam engine in britches.” I never heard “The Doc” raise his voice, but I saw him raise his listeners into the Heavenlies on many an occasion.

Dr. Bob Jones Sr. said, “I have never entered the pulpit that I didn’t think I would die if God didn’t bless the message.” No doubt this lack of intensity is the problem in much of our contemporary preaching. Preachers need to realize, you can’t get pretty music out of a fiddle with loose strings.

by an Aged Saint

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