“The Christian preacher, therefore is not a prophet. No original revelation is given to him; his task is to expound the revelation which has been given once for all. And however truly he preaches in the power of the Holy Spirit, he is not ‘inspired’ by the Spirit in the sense in which the prophets were. It is true that ‘whoever speaks’ is instructed to do so ‘as one who utters oracles of God’ (1 Pet. 4:11) This, however is not because he is himself, or has received, a fresh divine oracle, but because he is a steward (1 Pet. 4:10), as we shall see later, to whom have been entrusted the Holy Scriptures, which are ‘the oracles of God’ (Rom. 3:2)” (John Stott, The Preacher’s Portrait, p. 12).
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