Famine in the land

There is a dearth across the land today. We have turned away from the pure preaching of the Word. Many preachers today are utilizing gimmicky skits, crude humor, and shock tactics to get their message across. Brethren, all we need is the Gospel. The Gospel is a scandal all of its own. What is the deal with this seeker sensitive, feel good gospel we have today? A vast number of so-called "men of God" are not preaching the Word of God! Can we not get back to pure exegetical preaching? Most sermons today are peppered with humor and flavored with poison. Many preachers today are lazy, half-hearted, self righteous authoritarians. They spend more time in the carefree leisures of life than in their study or on their knees pleading for their people. We need men who will seek God on behalf of their flock. A preacher cannot speak to his flock about God, if he himself has not spoke to God about his flock. Sloth and negligence abound in and out of the pulpit. Redundant and repetitive sermons are the result of their apathy. Upon visiting churches in America, a British pastor was asked, "What did you think about your American counter-parts?" He replied, "The expense of their automobiles and the emptiness of their book shelves." Men of God are just not laboring over the Word of God anymore. They carry the latest and most expensive electronic gadget in their pocket and have a high end automobile, yet their libraries are suffering because of their frivolous luxuries. Whatever happened to study to show yourself approved? Thirty minutes of preparation on a Saturday night just doesn't cut the mustard. There are too many preachers delivering "Saturday night specials" on Sunday morning. They are getting their sermons off the internet and not from the throne of God. We have sermonic websites devoted to the procrastinating pastor. Are you one? Do you fire a gun that another man has loaded? I hope not. Load your own gun and fire it from the pulpit. We need God called men laboring over the text of scripture that God has laid before them. "The great need across evangelicalism is exposition of the Scriptures. I sense there is a departure from that, even among some of our own grads, who are entertaining people, giving the people what they want, whereas we are called to teach the Word. It is the Word that is the power of God to salvation, it is the Word that is the power for Christian living, and I would want them to make the Word of God the center of their ministry, It may not be popular, it may not build mega-churches, but it will fulfill that to which they are called upon to do in ministry. "Churches today must return to the primacy of preaching God's Word. May God raise up a new generation of Biblical expositors who, like those in the early church, are supremely committed to the unashamed proclamation of the apostles' teaching. Now more than ever, may they preach the Word!”