“Do you know what my reward is? It is this: in my preaching, to be able to offer the Good News free” (I Corinthians 9:18).
During his 30-year ministry, a certain pastor became known far and wide as an effective preacher: a spellbinder. Each week he would finish writing his Sunday sermon on Wednesday, and for the next three days he would practice delivering it by reading it
aloud in his study — often very loud. One Saturday night, as he went into his study to work on his delivery, he found that someone had tacked a sign on the door. It read: “This is where our pastor practices what he preaches.”
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