PREACHER AS THE LIGHT OF THE WORD
During the French Revolution political prisoners were herded into dungeons. In one place a prisoner possessed a Bible. His cell was crammed with men who wanted to hear the Word of God. Once each day for only a few moments, a small shaft of light would come through a tiny window near the ceiling. The prisoners devised a plan whereby they would lift the owner of the Bible onto their shoulders and into the sunlight. There, in that position, he would study the Scriptures. Then they would bring him down and say, “Tell us now, friend, what did you read while you were in the light?” That remains the sacred, sweaty task of the preacher: to share with his people what he has learned in the light.
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