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# “My challenge is this…”
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200942my-challenge-is-this-html/
- Published: 2009-04-02T17:45:24.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:31:09.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Homiletics, theocentric, #DashHouseCom, #wp

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I was struck by this thought in [*Why Johnny Can’t Preach*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1596381167/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com). Gordon is responding to those who have dismissed preaching:

> I believe the preaching in many churches is so poorly done that it is not, effectively, preaching…If the patients of a given hospital’s surgeons continue to die, we could, I suppose, abandon the scalpel. We might also consider employing it more skillfully.

> **My challenge…is this: Show me a church where the preaching is good, and the church is still moribund. I’ve never seen such a church.** The moribund churches I’ve seen have been malpreached to death.