Pastoral ministry can be painful. Preaching can be exhausting and often met with apathy from some, hostility from others. When tempted to quit, let us look beyond the pews to Calvary. Consider the outpouring of Jesus’ blood and pour yourself out in your preaching.
The pulpit is your altar and your sermon the sacrifice, ignited by gratitude for the mercy of God that would make you—an undeserving sinner—to be a custodian and communicator of God’s Word. Our voices ought to rise from the fires of hell with shrieks of pain for all eternity, but instead they may rise today with shouts of praise for grace that saved us and selected us to preach the Gospel!
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Romans 12:1 NKJV)
You seem to have a rather high opinion of your preaching, if you think it a substitute for the Memorial Christ commanded.
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