Foundation for the Ministry of Preaching

Such is the theological foundation for the ministry of preaching. God is light; God has acted; God has spoken; and God has caused His action and speech to be preserved in writing. Through this written Word He continues to speak with a living voice powerfully. And the Church needs to listen attentively to His Word, since its health and maturity depend upon it. So pastors must expound it; is is to this they have been called. Whenever they do so with integrity, the voice of God is heard, and the Church is convicted and humbled, restored and reinvigorated, and transformed into an instrument for His glory (John R. W. Stott, Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today, p. 133).