Pyromaniacs: You say you want to be a teacher? Oy!
Dan Phillips has done a great service to those who read these words, giving the appropriate recognition of how we should take the role of teacher with the utmost of soberness. Too often the pulpit is seen as a place for storytime, for the telling of jokes and tales, of entertainment or of self-improvement. But if a man is going to stand in front of his flock, and open the Word of God, he better darn well know that it is not just the souls in front of him that he is responsible to, it is God Most High as well. If one enters the pulpit without a level of fear and trembling under the weight of the responsibility he is accepting, he is in danger of condemnation. The pulpit is no place for a showman or snake oil salesman, but rather a place for the proclamation of the truth of God revealed.
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