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• Preaching today is often restricted to the delivery of homiletical sermons from a church pulpit. But the New Testament semantic range of the word (2 Tim. 4:2; “to preach,” Greek kerusso) is much broader and encompasses the meaning of the personal preaching of the Word through counseling.1 One-on-one counseling is one form of proclaiming or preachin...
• One of the surest signs of the blessing of God upon His people is the gift of spiritual shepherds who intentionally disciple and faithfully care for His flock.
• The book of Jeremiah is essentially a long essay on apostasy. What is of particular interest is its evidence of the incredible power of leaders to influence people for good or for ill.
• When God’s shepherds neglect His Word, the flock always suffers.
• In other words, the very nature of the pastorate is being intentionally overhauled and the “new” worldly paradigm does not look much different from that which God condemned in the Old Testament.