The first act of love in preaching is an act of self-denial—to become more interested in people than in the subject. That means giving up the love of knowledge and replacing it with a love for people. We need to learn to put our knowledge in the service of the people, in terms and ways they can appreciate, not because we have to oversimplify the message, but because we love people so much that we’ll do whatever it takes to communicate with them. Journalists, whose business is communication, cannot