Pastors are not merely teachers or lecturers. They are shepherds to needy sheep. Burk Parsons describes the kind of sermons a shepherd should give. We’re joined today by Burk Parsons. Burk is senior pastor of Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Florida, and editor of Tabletalk, the monthly magazine of Ligonier Ministries. He’s uses Twitter in a way that’s very compelling. Thanks for joining us today, Burk, and in fact that’s where I’ll start. I want you to riff on a tweet you posted in May. It was on preaching. You posted this: “Pastors who deliver merely intellectually stimulating lectures and not gospel-saturated, intellectually stimulating, worship-driven sermons will always produce auditors and spectators rather than participants and passionate worshipers.” What’s at the heart of that? Episode 1246: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/real-sermons-are-not-lectures-or-moral-stories Related Resources: “How to Read the Bible — and Preach It” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08tJyU4Nsc “Six Common Ways Preachers Dishonor God’s Word” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhdMu3pp10Q “What Is the Place of Eloquence in Christian Preaching?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj6rxQiEJx0 “Pride and Humility in Criticizing Sermons” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGE6hZCXCDM Find other recent and popular Ask Pastor John episodes, http://desiringgod.org/ask-pastor-john