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COLUMN
COLUMNIST
DAVID HULL
Where are your feet?
In the last issue of Preach magazine, reflecting on
the joy of preaching, I mentioned a text famously
set to music in Handel’s Messiah: ‘Rejoice greatly,
O daughter of Zion’. This time I would like to begin
with another. I wonder if the same music comes to
mind for you as for me: ‘How beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad
tidings of good things’ (Romans 10:15, KJV).
O
f course, ‘beautiful’ may not be
the first word to come to mind
when you think of preachers’
feet, but that would be missing
the point. These feet are not beautiful
in and of themselves, but they
become beautiful because of the
good news they bring.
Two images come to mind when I
think of that picture of preachers’
feet. The first comes from a
conference for young preachers I
attended a number of years ago.
During his session, Michael Green
(probably the oldest of the speakers)
jumped around on two chairs. They
represented two different worlds.
As preachers, he was explaining,
we are to have one foot in the Word
and one foot in the world. Our job
as preachers is to build a bridge
between the two, so that our hearers
will be able to see how the wor