Stott On Leaving The Pulpit With A Sense Of Failure

I confess that in the pulpit I am often seized with ‘communication frustration,’ for a message burns within me, but I am unable to convey to others what I am thinking, let along feeling. And seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for forgiveness, and a resolve to look to him for grace to do better in the future.

John Stott | Between Two  Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today (Eerdmans, 1970), x. (HT Denny Burk)


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