“Don’t let me preach the same message over and over again with different titles.” That’s what I told my wife after listening to someone’s preaching tapes with the same message, but sporting different titles. It seems at that point in that preacher’s life, he was down to one interesting message, so he just gave it different titles on tapes.
All of us who handle the Word have special passages that we are comfortable with and preach them at every opportunity. I can’t do that here because I’ve preached at the same church for forty years. Sometimes I’ve considered gathering up the most interesting ones and going to preach at some other church for three years. I know you caught that. I’m afraid that about thirty-seven-years’-worth fall in the drowsy-zone.
God has given the same commandment to all of us who have been called to handle Scriptures:
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
What a powerful statement! What preparation! What limitations! What responsibility! What danger! What resolve!
Give it some thought.
Gary