The Call to Preach by Dustin Neely & Ray Ortlund

The Call to Preach by Dustin Neely & Ray Ortlund

The notion of the call to preach...

• Who am I to preach?
• Who are you?
• What right do we have to presume that?
• Comforted by Jeremiah 1:9
• Jeremiah felt inadequate - because he was
• “I have put my words in your mouth.”
• I doesn’t matter who I am
• What matters is whose words are in my mouth.
• If I am enunciating God’s word in my mouth
• I can be as inadecuate as i am
• That’s not a problem
• that’s not a barrier
• but that’s where the power comes down if the words are His 

For someone who is overwhelmed with his inadequacies as a preacher, how do you comfort him base on this passage and other passages?

• I don’t know how I can get out of bed in the morning,
• much less preach without 2 Corinthians 12:10
• For when I am weak, then I am strong.
• For the sake of Christ - the reason of my inadequacy 
• when His power rests upon us
• is for the sake of His adequacy 
• our inadequacies are not a problem God has to work around
• but they are a part of God’s strategy
• He makes us inadequate so His power can rest upon us
• I don’t want to live my life in the power of the flesh
• come to the end of my life and find out it counted for nothing
• The sooner I discover my weaknesses, the better