generation that regards traditional preaching as irrelevant. His concern about changing times and preachers who have been left behind is one of the toughest issues facing twenty-first-century preachers. First Chronicles 12 lists warriors who dared to join the outlaw David in Hebron. Some were large, well-armed groups: “the people of Judah bearing shield and spear numbered six thousand eight hundred armed troops” (v. 24). However, a much smaller group made a distinctive, strategic contribution. “Of