Futility of Modern Preaching
The Watchtower, June 15, 1957
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● A professor of theology at Chicago’s Federated Theological Faculty, Marcus Barth, son of the European theologian Karl Barth, was quoted in Time magazine, February 18, 1957, as saying regarding modern preaching: “In Europe the preaching is on a deeper and more dogmatic level than here, but the churches are empty all too often. Here the preaching is close to the people, the churches are full, but the problem is whether the congregation hears anything in the sermon which its members have not already read in their morning newspapers and have already told themselves.”
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- Another Admission of Christendom’s Failure
- Check Your Memory
- Dead to the Old World, Alive to the New World
- Honesty Honors Jehovah
- Hope for the Soul
- Jehovah’s Name a Strong Tower
- Once Saved, Always Saved
- Overseers of Jehovah’s People
- Part 4—President Visits Europe and Middle East
- Questions From Readers
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