Some preachers complain about the fluffy content-free preaching that seems to be popular in some quarters.  But to listen to their complaints you might think the only alternative is the dry and tedious preaching they seem to offer.  I suppose this is like complaining about the nutritionally bankrupt junk food that hoards of people snack on every day, but then insisting that these hoards should instead be eating the overcooked, under-salted boiled cabbage and greyed carrots that they are offering in their pulpit cuisine.

There is another option.

Even if you have a bit of a taste for chocolate (something I can relate to), and even if you don’t generally prefer vegetables (another point with which I connect), there is another possibility.

Instead of the supposedly healthy vegetable meals offered by bad cooks who have committed a war crime against any lingering nutritional value in their over zealous pots, consider the finest cooked meals of five-star chefs in the best restaurants.  When you get to taste good food cooked properly, it is a delight.  Even a chocolate loving, vegetable phobic person like me will freely admit how much more satisfying healthy food is when it is prepared properly.

So back to preaching.  If people are flocking to hear empty waffling, but not staying to enjoy our preaching, let’s not feel totally stuck.  We don’t have to sell out and start serving junk food.  Neither do we need to become embittered against all the popular preachers.  Instead listen to some of the best preachers and develop a taste for fine cuisine preaching . . . some preachers are actually popular, not because they serve junk food, but because they serve fine food superbly prepared.  Perhaps we might get a taste for it.  We might even choose to serve it to others.