There are some things, even little things like reading a book, that you never forget.
I first read the book Preaching and Preachers by Martyn Lloyd-Jones when I was in college. It remains unforgettable to me because it was at this time in my life that I first sensed my own call to the ministry of pastor teacher.
What the Doctor says about the chief end of preaching influences me to this day…
What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this. It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence…I can forgive a man for a bad sermon, I can forgive the preacher almost anything if he gives me a sense of God, if he gives me something for my soul, if he gives me the sense that, though he is inadequate himself, he is handling something which is very great and very glorious, if he gives me some dim glimpse of the majesty and the glory of God, the love of Christ my Saviour, and the magnificence of the Gospel. If he does that I am his debtor, and I am profoundly grateful to him.