Words of Grace 5/27

By Rev. Mahlon Nevel

“I believed,” the Psalmist wrote, “Therefore have I spoken”(Psalm 116: 10).

Paul, in his second epistle to the Corinthians, repeated those words: “I believed and therefore I have spoken.” The apostle said that he also believed, and therefore spoke. (4:13)

It does not make a difference when we speak about something that we believe. There is an old story about a minister who met the famous Actor Macready.

“Why do you draw such big crowds to see you act while no one comes to hear me preach?”

The Actor answered, “I act my fiction as though it were fact: you preach your facts as though they were fiction!”

David Hume was known to be a skeptic when it came to the Bible. He was on his way to hear a very poor, plain preacher and when asked why he attended such preaching when he did not believe it, answered: “I don’t believe what he says, but he believes it and once in a while I like to hear a man who believes what he says.”

Evangelist Vance Havner says, “Our sinful generation sits unmoved Sunday after Sunday in our day because of tasteless, dry and powerless preaching. The minister himself is only reciting phrases that never have gripped him, just acting a part, and actor in a pulpit show. “