modeled. Certainly, such is not the case. God does not call His preachers to success, especially what is measured by worldly standards. God calls His preachers to faithfulness, and faithfulness includes the careful handling of His revealed Word with the utmost of integrity. And besides, we will never know how much more effective some of the “successful” preachers—past and present—could have been had they been faithful to allow the biblical text to drive their sermons. In time, the postmodern era