Why 'Boring' Preachers Should Be Fired

"Boring teachers and preachers should be fired, Christian theologian Carl Trueman believes.

In his recent blog post on Reformation 21, an online magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, the professor of historical theology and church history made it clear and simple – good preachers preaching on doctrine or “the description of who God is and how he has acted” should never leave audiences feeling cold and indifferent.

Referring to 1 Timothy 1: 16-17, a passage which he recently preached from, Trueman described how God’s actions and persona always left apostle Paul in praise, a reaction that Christians should have upon hearing God’s word.

“The relationship between doctrine and worship in the structure of Paul’s letters allows us to infer that doctrine which does not lead to praise is not really true in the richest sense of the word,” he penned. “Doctrine which does not culminate in praise is not true doctrine.”

“Teaching of doctrine and appropriate response to the same are inextricably tied together such that the former should really terminate in the latter.”

Unfortunately today, this was not the case for many churches, Trueman observed...." To read more, click here.