Their failure to act on his preaching shook the young man to the core of his beliefs about preaching. Confident that he had truly shown them the biblical mandate, he was hurt and bewildered when they rejected it. So he told me, “I said, ‘I’m going to try this York’s way,’ and from that point on I began to focus not only on content but on application. In every sermon I would preach the truth of the text and then confront them with a decision whether or not they would obey the command or the implications