“A good preacher should have these properties and virtues: first to teach systematically; secondly, he should have a ready wit; thirdly, he should be eloquent; fourthly, he should have a good voice; fifthly, a good memory; sixthly, he should know when to make an end; seventhly, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighthly, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honour, in the word; ninthly, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of every one.”
-Martin Luther, The Tabletalk of Martin Luther: Luther’s comments on life, the church and the Bible (Ross-shire, Great Britain: Christian Focus, 2003), 273-274.
