If you want to be a clown, join the circus, but stay out of the pulpit!

If you want to talk politics, go to Washington, but stay out of the pulpit!

If you want to be a comedian, get on TV, but stay out of the pulpit!

If you want to be dramatic, get on the stage, but stay out of the pulpit!

If you want to appear intellectual, go teach in college, but stay out of the pulpit!

If you want to seriously, soberly and simply proclaim God’s Way, by all means, take the pulpit!

An excerpt from an article “The Preacher” in Truth Magazine, April 19, 2001