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THE IMPRESSION AND EXPRESSION OF THE GOOD NEWS FOUR phases of the
process of preaching we shall study briefly in this chapter. They
must be understood in their right relations by any one who is to
preach the good news successfully in the modern age. The first is
the impression of the good news upon the preacher. This has been
considered at such length in the previous chapter that we only
revert to it again here. The Gospel must have made a deep
impression upon the whole life of the preacher before he can
effectively impress it upon others. It must be the greatest truth
he knows, the noblest engagement to which he can possibly dedicate
himself. Thus the Gospel must have been impressed upon his very
spirit. It must have laid hold on the deepest springs of his
action; it must be translated into motives; it must shape the major
program of the preacher's life. No man who goes into the pulpit
merely because he is interested in what he is going to do or say
there, or because he enjoys the music, or because he likes the
stately order of aservice, will be a preacher. But something must
have been impressed upon him so deeply that he is under the spell
of its mighty urgency and feels that he absolutely must do
something about it. There lies the source of his power. It is the
drive and the compulsion derived from a commanding truth. It is no
ground for boasting or claim to glory when a man upon whom the good
news has been so deeply and vitally impressed seeks to preach it,
or to express it. Indeed, he could not do anything else and be true
to the deepest that is in him. Paul states this fact in one of
those little revelations of himself that he gives occasionally in
his letters: " For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory
of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is un...
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