Obligation to the ordinary means

Hanserd Knollys expounds on believers’ Obligation to the ordinary means.

Preaching to the Heart, by Jay Adams

For years homileticians have been exhorting preachers to “preach to the heart.” But what are they talking about? Do you know? Do they? Is the concept Biblical, and if so, how does one do it?

The blame for confusion about what it means to “preach to the heart” does not lie solely with homileticians, while preachers go off scot-free. Homileticians should make themselves clear. But if they don’t, it is the responsibility of the preachers to pound on their doors until they do. So neither is guiltless. There has been a conspiracy of ignorance in which words and phrases have been uttered again and again as though the speakers and the listeners knew perfectly well what they were talking about, when all the while they did not. As a homiletician who has been at fault in this matter, I believe something must be done. It is time the whole matter were cleared up. That is the point of this book.

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