The Church lives by the Word of God, that is why theology is ministerium verbi
divini. I suspect we are in danger of forgetting among our many interests the creative
and renewing power of the Word of God; that the sermon is the means of the real
presence of Christ. Of course I am not speaking of religious and moral chats. I am
speaking of the manifestation of the living Word through the spoken word from the
written word in which the stumbling utterance of one who may be anything but a
popular preacher becomes the σάρξ which is the bearer of the Word, the eternal Son. C.K. Barrett
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