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When Preachers Should be Professionals

2. Don’t be selfishly driven.

There is nothing wrong with receiving finance in association with preaching. Whether it is a regular stipend or a loving palm gift, we thank God for any funding given in association with preaching.

However, the moment a mercenary attitude creeps in, something is broken. A preacher should be giving of themselves, giving themselves away in ministry. While they shouldn’t starve to death in the process, it should be others that are concerned to make sure that doesn’t happen. And when it isn’t a matter of starving but moving to higher levels of luxury, a preacher concerned with what is received seems to be a preacher who has lost their true focus.

3. Don’t be self-reliant.

Another aspect of professionalism that we must be wary of is the idea of self-reliance. That is the loss of prayerful dependence on God and the loss of humility and perceived weakness.

Even the most skilled and capable and gifted individual is still stepping out beyond their own strengths when they open God’s Word before a gathering of people. Let’s be sure never to lose that sense of utter inadequacy as we preach.

What else would you add, either positively or negatively, in association with professionalism?