“Only the Word of God and a relentless faithfulness to preaching the Word and Christ crucified gets you through 42 years of faithful ministry in a pulpit,” said Schillero.
Schillero went on to praise the Parkside Church congregation for its “expectation” and “appetite not for a messenger but for a message; not for a person but for a gospel.”
“And for me, as a successor, to stand in this place and know that our congregation comes with the expectation that you bring your Bible and that we open our Bibles, that we look to our Bibles, and there we find Jesus, there is no greater gift that I could receive,” Schillero continued.
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Schillero went on to encourage the congregation to keep him accountable.
“Friends, I want to extend the open invitation to you this morning to rigorously critique my preaching, Sunday in and Sunday out,” he said. Jokingly, he added, “Now, some of you didn’t necessarily feel like you needed to wait for the green light to do that, but there it is either way.”
“I want to invite you, solicit your critique and your criticism of my preaching—but under one condition,” Schillero said, “that the rubric you use to grade my preaching is a biblical one.”
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“The quality of my preaching must ultimately be measured by the degree to which I proclaim Jesus Christ and him crucified,” Schillero added. “That’s the test.”
