God is gloriously understandable in measure through a glass darkly.

And God is gloriously enjoyable with the heart, and we are commanded more often to enjoy him than to understand him.

And therefore, worship, which is to give glory to God, Edward says, must both see him and savor him.

And preaching is a kind of communication that embodies that, I believe, better than any other kind.

Some people think of preaching as mostly an information dump, just doctrine and definitions.

But what John Piper says here helps us rethink the purpose of

preaching altogether. I'm Dan Kroover. In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explains why

preaching is uniquely suited to help us both understand God and delight in Him.

This message was originally delivered in Wheaton, Illinois at the Act 3 Reformation Conference

on October 28, 1999.

Now, here's our second question.

The first question was why the word is central, and the second question is why preaching is central.

Why preaching?

You could do it a lot of other ways.

Put an overhead here and teach and take questions.

You have to preach for 30 minutes.

I do that Wednesday nights for 45 minutes with my people.

You could break up into small groups and discuss the Bible for 30 minutes or so.

We do that on Sunday night.

Try to push everybody into a small group.

Get a lecture and give all kinds of historical backgrounds and deal with critical issues in the New Testament,

historical issues like that.

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