The Weight of Preaching develops a workable theology of the preacher’s task in this role, commissioned by God to proclaim the Good News. The nature of a preacher is that of a herald, one commissioned and sent by another to speak his message in his behalf to a recipient. Furthermore, this book will seek to make conclusions concerning John Owen’s view of pastoral preaching and its faithfulness to Scripture. This book seeks to unearth from John Owen’s writings the various aspects that affect pastoral preaching, his understanding of a True Gospel Church, preaching as the priority for a pastor, and what exactly constituted faithful biblical preaching. The goal is to understand and evaluate John Owen’s thought, from Holy Scripture, with regards to pastoral preaching. The aim of the book is to examine John Owen’s view of the biblical role of a pastor with regards to the ministry of preaching the word of God in the life of a local church. John Owen’s works have greatly influenced Western Christendom in the centuries that have passed, and his concern for the true church shines powerfully forth from his writings. He gave himself to the study of Scripture out of an abiding love for the glory of God amongst the people of Christ. John Owen was a scholar, pastor, dissenter, and faithful follower of Christ in a tumultuous time. He contends that sermons "need not settle comfortably on the lives of the listeners like dust on a coffee table." He encourages preachers to join him in casting off the lines that moor their ministries to the status-quo and make every effort to steer their preaching out of the "comfortable shallows." He urges them to preach deep sermons rather than superficial ones, moving "beyond the yawn-inspiring to the awe-inspiring, from the trite to the transforming." John Owen on Pastoral Preaching
Edwards helps preachers learn to preach the word in ways that will powerfully change the lives of hearers. Deep Preaching is his call to "rethink" preaching. Edwards fears the same thing happens today when preachers offer Scriptural truth to listeners without being completely overwhelmed by its greatness themselves in the process. The precious stones were being handled with no regard for their true worth.
Vernon McGee told about seeing children in South Africa playing a game of marbles in the dust with real diamonds. Kent Edwards recalls a story that late pastor J.
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