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In this updated version of The Preacher’s Portrait John Stott presents a portrait of the ideal preacher; a portrait painted by the hand of God himself on the broad canvas of the New Testament. Through studying five roles of a preacher—steward, herald, witness, father, and servant—Stott illustrates God’s ideal for a preacher’s character, message and purpose.

talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God’.4 The second indispensable condition for enjoying the power of the Holy Spirit in preaching is humility, and it is on this that Paul lays his emphasis. There is unmistakeable teaching here that God’s power is revealed through human weakness and God’s wisdom through human foolishness. Paul sees this principle at work both in his readers’ conversion and in his own ministry. God chose the weak
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