Honoring God in the Pulpit

Here’s an excerpt from Honoring God in the Pulpit, John MacArthur’s contribution to the February issue of Tabletalk:

If we were to ask the Apostle Paul for advice on how to honor God as preachers, he would say, “Preach the word” (2 Tim. 4:2), do not shrink from “declaring . . . the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27), and always highlight the central theme: the gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s how Paul summarized his own philosophy of ministry. In 1 Corinthians 2:2, he distills the key to God-honoring preaching in one short sentence: “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”

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