Listen @ http://www.brendanflannagan.com/what-is-preaching/We’ve all had the experience; someone is trying to tell you something important! Meanwhile, you are creeping to the door. Whew! You escaped…. then you recall: "I just felt like they wouldn’t stop preaching at me!” As humans, we do not like to be “preached at” or really for that matter to be preached nearby. We do not like to be told “what to do” or “how to do it”. We can figure it out on our own, thank you very much. But, the Bible mandates preaching (Mark We must preface this episode with an understanding: not all preaching is good, God-honoring preaching. Some is horrendous, hateful, and embittered; other preaching is passive, disorganized, and subjective. Our focus is, “What is God-honoring, Biblical mandated preaching look like?” First, let’s look at the Biblical mandate to preach. The last chapter of Mark records the direct command of Jesus- “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” (Mark But, teaching is only a component of preaching and is not inherently connected to its nature. Martin Lloyd Jones compared teaching to preaching by saying that a lecture could be given at anytime, but a sermon must be delivered now. Preaching has a sense of urgency. Again, Martin Lloyd Jones writes, in his book, On Preachers and Preaching,What is preaching? Logic on fire! Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire. A true understanding and experience of the Truth must lead to this. I say again that a man who can speak about these things dispassionately has no right whatsoever to be in a pulpit; and should never be allowed to enter one.The Prophet Jeremiah expressed the same urge to preach as a “fire in his bones.” (Jer Finish reading and listening @ http://www.brendanflannagan.com/what-is-preaching/