If you could preach a series on any book in the Bible, which book would you choose?

I put this question to my class of 16 Kenyan pastors as part of a ‘get to know you’ exercise at the beginning of a two-week course in Nairobi last year. My guess is that if I asked the same question of a group of Australian preachers, the majority of us would answer with a book from the New Testament. Not that we don’t value the Old Testament or treat it as scripture, but for one reason or another, we are more comfortable preaching from the pages of the gospels or epistles. (more…)