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Remember when you left seminary or took up your present pastorate, and you were going to set the church aflame with your sound biblical exposition, your sweeping theological insights and your homiletical eloquence? Roger Wagner suggests that maybe it is time to re-examine the preaching of Paul, Peter and Stephen and reconsider what it was in their preaching that not only set the Church aflame but...

untrained men was enough to penetrate even the jaded ears of the Jewish council (they had heard it someplace before!). Immediately after his conversion, Paul’s preaching ministry in Damascus became more and more powerful, and is described by Barnabas as fearless. Later the brethren in Jerusalem are treated to a sample of that same sort of preaching and debating (vv. 28 f.). Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.… Barnabas
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