Preaching Matters

By John Meador

Preaching matters. Specifically, your preaching matters. It matters to the people you preach to each week, and it matters to God.

As preachers and teachers, we sometimes get the wrong impression about our preaching. If we’re not careful, we’re likely to downplay the importance of what we do when we pray, study, and then stand and deliver. The amazing leaps of technology, entertainment, and the high-definition world our people live in has shortened their attention spans and generally made it more difficult to connect. This sometimes discourages us and leads to muttering about how big a struggle it is on a given Sunday. However, all that has not minimized the importance of what you and I do.

The ultimate judge of what we do, of course, is Him. In a very real sense, we preach to an audience of One. Remembering that means a great deal.