Short story: Real preaching comes from a real heart, and so is heartfelt

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The renowned preacher, Reverend Frelish Abatus, always gave lengthy sermons, of which, most people let go in one ear, and out the other, without really paying it any attention. Then, one day, a man came up to the preacher, and told him that he was good at preaching, and at acquiring preaching material, but other than that, his preaching was mostly dead wood, cannon fodder, which could never light anyone's fire with it. "You need to put all of that accumulated trash aside, and let your heart speak out its truth to your listeners," he was told by this man. The Preacher, at first, was taken aback, but then he thought about his long life as a preacher, and he decided to change, and just to speak from his heart, as the man had told him to do. By doing this, the Preacher realised that he was not just killing the time of himself, and his listeners, anymore, but was creating a link through all eternity to each person, where his message touched their heart. He now knew the truth of the saying: "Only what comes from the heart enters the heart. What comes from the mind, is mostly heartless, and achieves little, unless it has come via the heart first." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com