What They Said

"My argument is, therefore, that a man who feels he is competent, and that he can do this easily, and so rushes to preach without any sense of fear or trembling, or any hesitation whatsoever, is a man who is proclaiming that he has never been "called" to be a preacher.  The man who is called by God is a man who realizes what he is called to do, and he so realizes the awfulness of the task that he shrinks from it.  Noting but this overwhelming sense of being called, and of compulsion, should ever lead anyone to preach."

Martyn-Lloyd Jones