Scriptures that a young, well-educated preacher hardly knew how to begin to bring the Word of God to his congregation. For the vast majority of seminary graduates in my generation, a three-year seminary education only introduced us to the problems involved in interpreting the Bible. The Bible was best left to the experts, and experts we were not. For the average man or woman in the pew, the problem was much more acute. The Great American School produced no expository preaching of note. If there was
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