The Only Font of Our Authority

“Granted that only the power of God can make the blind see and the dead live, where is this power to be found? How can preachers become such channels of it as to be ‘servants through whom’ others will believe? There is no clearer exposition in the New Testament of the place of divine power than 1 Corinthians 1:17-2:5. It is perhaps, the passage of Scripture which preachers should read and study more than any other, and by which we should judge and reform our ministry” (John Stott, The Preacher’s Portrait, p. 108).