“We are very quick to criticise street preachers”, says British street preacher who faces a retrial at the end of July. 

Both were arrested in the UK after being accused of using “homophobic language.” One of them has been preaching publicly for more than 11 years.

The 150-page manual delineates the sermon as having the following features: short, not a lecture, not too abstract, not an exegetical exercise and not a personal testimony only.

If God wants someone to be overwhelmed with the sense of His presence, then He can lay the man (woman) on the ground; not the preacher! Let God be God! Let the Spirit do the work! Anything else is a deceitful work of man that brings the integrity of the Gospel into question.

Here are four reasons that preaching is losing much of its prestige amongst us.