than he can be given a ready-made predigested theological system. Preaching procedures are poor in the main because preachers simply have not taken the time and energy to master them.27 This subject of the content of preaching will be addressed later in the book. For now, the connection between the poverty in the pulpit and the loss of interest in preaching must be understood. When content is shallow, when style is pre-eminent, and when sermons lack an aura of authority and depth, it is difficult,
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