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Overfed, Underchallenged
A message must do battle for the will. An interview with author, speaker, and Taylor University chancellor Jay Kesler.
posted 01/01/03
PreachingToday.com:Why challenge hearers?
Jay Kesler: Preaching is distinguished from teaching in that it calls for commitment and attempts to bring people to a point of action.
Somewhere I read about two men. When one man preached, people leaned back and said, "How interesting." When the other preached, ...
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David Kruse
Thanks for your testimony, Jay, of accepting the call to preach. This has clarified something of my own calling. I appreciate the closing comment on prayer, too.
roger tirabassi
A great word: "A presentation of the truth that doesn't arrive at the place where hearers understand it involves movement or commitment can have an inoculation effect."
Fulton Lytle
I love the emphasis on preaching for more than information or feelings or even conviction. Yet in reading the gospels for many years I see that Jesus did not simply call people to Be. Doing is an intragal part of being. When you move to one side or the other you move away from Jesus.