Don’t Tell Us What You Are Going To Do – Do It

In this article, Jay Adams addresses the issue of “prefacing:” the bad habit of announcing what one is about to do before doing it, when there is no reason for doing so. Adams argues that prefacing breaks the continuity of the sermon, has no biblical precedent, and adds nothing to the sermon.

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JBC Volume 5:2 (1981) PDF$5.00

Bob D. Smith, Dwight Zeller, James R. Johnson, Jay Adams, John Juedes, Keith Megilligan, Kurt Goedelman, Martin E. Clark, Milton Fisher, Robert Penny, Tim Crater, Wesley Walters

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