The greatest threat to your ministry, brothers and sisters, is that you will stop enjoying

God.

Sixty-eight years old, fighting this fight a long time, your greatest threat is that you

will stop enjoying God.

And therefore, the need for a lifelong habit of thinking about truth for the sake of enjoying

truth is imperative.

That was Pastor John at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Chapel in January

of 2014.

This warning from you, Pastor John, became a tweet, and it became a popular tweet, and

a lot of people retweeted it.

Pastor John, can you give us a brief synopsis of why is the greatest threat to our ministry

is that we will stop enjoying God?

There are a lot of reasons.

The first one that I think I had in mind when I said that was that if a pastor loses

his enjoyment of God, God himself, if he ceases to experience God as his supreme treasure

and underland the word experience, not just say he is, but experience.

If he ceases to experience that, he will not be able to preach with authenticity.

You can't commend as supremely precious what you don't cherish supremely.

And the Bible says that the function of preaching, 2 Corinthians 1, 24, is we are workers with

you for your joy.

So I'm aiming at the joy of my people in God, or Philippians 1, 25, I will remain and

continue with you for your progress and joy of faith.

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