I wrote this not long ago.
Tonight, I was searching through YouTube for some sermons by Fred Craddock, that illustrious preacher of preachers. The one who initially helped to teach me to preach.
And I found this:
Would that pastors were more like this now. But, sadly, at least in this one experience lately, pastors have abrogated their divine office to something much smaller, less Christ-like, than pastors are called to be.
Tonight, I was searching through YouTube for some sermons by Fred Craddock, that illustrious preacher of preachers. The one who initially helped to teach me to preach.
And I found this:
Would that pastors were more like this now. But, sadly, at least in this one experience lately, pastors have abrogated their divine office to something much smaller, less Christ-like, than pastors are called to be.