2 For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, 4 and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:3–5
Any preacher worth his salt needs to tap into the power of the Spirit in his preaching. Anything else is just mouthing words, or flapping gums. He should pray for this to be possible. The gravity of the responsibility he has should be enough to take him to his knees, but it’s possible that the mighty ego gets in the way. You don’t want to have looked back and credit the profundity (deep insight) of what is pronounced or the panache (style) with which it is delivered as keys to success.
Better to drone on in a monotone voice under the Spirit’s power than to wax eloquent under your own power, or to work yourself into an emotional lather. Know this, the unvarnished wisdom of God and the simple gospel is incomparable to and far more compelling than the best rhetoric the world can offer or the most captivating tale ever told.
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