Two quotes from pastors came to my mind. Alexander MacLaren said when he was invited to lecture in the prestigious Yale Lecture series on preaching, that he turned it down. He turned it down because it would have taken him away from his preaching ministry at Union Chapel in Manchester. MacLaren put forty hours a week into the one sermon he preached. That means he said “No” frequently. Because of his dedication to preaching to his flock, we still read his sermons today in Expositions of Holy Scripture.