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Preaching Versus Teaching: Two Distinct Callings

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, June 24, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 56, No. 1

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—Preaching or lecturing is most excellent in its place. The preacher’s office and functions are divinely appointed. But preaching in its ordinary exercise is not always teaching in its best sense. The two are entirely distinct and dissimilar. The preacher’s distinctive office, according to modern usage, is to move men’s hearts by the presentation of the living word in the popular assembly. The teacher’s special mission is to bring the truth into personal, familiar contact with the class, so that it may be seen and felt by each individual soul.