4 Rules for Preachers

Justin Taylor, on his Gospel Coalition blog, offered Phillips Brooks's Four Rules for Preachers. They're good. Here is the outline:

1. Count and rejoice to count yourself the servant of the people to whom you minister.

2. Never allow yourself to feel equal to your work.

3. Be profoundly honest.

4. Be vital, be alive, not dead.

Brooks amplifies each one, briefly but meaningfully. Click here to read the whole thing.