“God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise” (I Corinthians 1:27).
The New Testament was written in Koine’ Greek for a reason. God wants the common people (careful now…tread lightly when speaking of “the common people”) to know and understand His truth.
A friend of mine once told his pastor, “Could you preach a little more simply for folks like me? After all, the Lord said to feed His sheep, not His giraffes.”
“Snobbishness” is a loosely understood word that means one thing to Aaron and something entirely different to Zachary. As a Supreme Court justice once said of pornography, however, even if we cannot define it, we know it when we see it.
What follows is one preacher’s note to his preacher friends on guarding oneself against snobbishness, that is, appearing better than others, aloof from the very people we are sent to reach and nurture in Christ.
1) Be careful about telling the congregation–or any audience on the planet!–about the time “When I got my doctorate.” Or, “When the U. S. Jaycees named me one of the ten outstanding young men of America.” Or, “When I won my Rhodes scholarship.”