How the Pulpit Shapes the Pew

"...most Christians read their Bibles in the same way that their pastors preach from it. Our people take their hermeneutics instruction from us every time we preach. Instinctively and intuitively they imbibe the approach to which they are exposed week after week. If people sit regularly under a ministry where the Scriptures are mishandled, they will have great obstacles to overcome in order rightly to handle it themselves."-Sinclair Ferguson from, Richard Allen Bodey, Inside the Sermon: Thirteen Preachers Discuss Their Methods of Preparing Messages