This Good News has been tested, tried, and found to be the Bread of Life here and there, now and then. Alongside this, the foolishness of biblical preaching points to God, not to human doctrine as the final touchstone. While the glass makes it possible to make passionate affirmations about the God it reveals, the preacher is nevertheless alert to and not surprised by the darkness of the glass. Fool's gold Good preaching is foolishness fourth because of its conviction that God speaks through preachers. The biblical warrant for this conviction is that God has consistently voiced the Word through human beings whose hearts, minds, souls, and strength are agents of such communication.
Scripture is replete with such examples.
In fact, one way some have defined Scripture is God preaching through those witnesses. Few Sundays pass in which I do not find myself struck dumb by the momentary silence before the sermon. All that we have been doing in worship has been shaped by previous moments like this, and what we have now come to hope for is the foolishness of the Gospel. In the foolish trust that because God is, because God speaks, because it is possible to know God, and because God can use preaching, I will stand to preach. Click here for reprint information on Leadership Journal.