Where Have All the Humble Gone?

BY JOE DUKE | PUBLISHED BY LEADING GRACE MAGAZINE

I still laugh when I recall Larry Crabb’s description of the worst sermon he ever heard. He said it was “delivered by a middle-aged man who made me think of a strutting peacock when he spoke.” I can’t get that picture out of my head. It’s hilarious and cringey at the same time. Unfortunately, you don’t have to look far to discover that the American church is filled with strutting peacocks. And in full disclosure, I may have strutted a time or two during my preaching adolescence.