“The first truth concerns the source of the preacher’s incentive. Preaching is hard work. The preacher is often tempted to become dispirited. He needs powerful incentives to strengthen his flagging soul, and there is no doubt that he can find one here. St. Paul certainly did. He was a steward of God’s mysteries, ‘a trustee of the secrets of God’ (1 Cor. 4:1, Phillips). The gospel was a sacred trust committed to him. Several times in his epistles he writes in these terms. This trust weighed heavily upon him” (John Stott, The Preacher’s Portrait, p. 23).
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