When Preaching Is Scary

John Stott and Preaching

I grew up in a small-town United Methodist Church under good pastors who cared well for my family and me. I never thought much about their preaching. It was all I knew, and so I didn’t really take notice. But when when I first walked into East Lansing Trinity Church as a college freshman in the winter of 1975, I realized I was hearing something new. Sud…