{"id":9922,"date":"2023-05-23T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","slug":"high-standards-for-preachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9922","title":{"rendered":"HIGH STANDARDS FOR PREACHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just finished writing a review of a book called <i>Preaching,\u00a0<\/i>written by Fred Craddock. It was a great book &#8211; the guy obviously had a lot of experience in the pulpit. To call the book comprehensive is an understatement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if there is a downside to Craddock\u2019s\ncomprehensive approach, it is that it sets such a high standard for preaching that the average preacher in the average church setting might be tempted to despair. For example, at one point\nCraddock asks, \u201cCan anyone think of a reason why a preacher should not work\nregularly with breathing, volume, tone, enunciation, and pronunciation, with\nall types of materials? (210)\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the margin, I answered his hypothetical\nquestion with this note: \u201cYes, that reason would be reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mean, I am all for high standards for preachers, but there are limits imposed by life and circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished writing a review of a book called Preaching,\u00a0written by Fred Craddock. It was a great book &#8211; the guy obviously had a lot of experience in the pulpit. To call the book comprehensive is an understatement.\u00a0 And if there is a downside to Craddock\u2019s comprehensive approach, it is that it sets such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9923,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions\/9923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}