One of my core callings (you know, besides writing and binge-watching prestige dramas) is preaching. And I think there’s an important difference between preaching and teaching.
Over the years I’ve struggled to understand and express this, and honestly I’ve heard it expressed rather poorly in the past. Some folks (who lean more charismatic or Pentecostal) will denigrate teaching, implicitly if not explicitly, as being too intellectual, too heady, and not spiritual enough. Prophecy is one of the “best gifts,” they reason, and so prophetic preaching is far superior to any mere theological lesson.
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