Tom Nettles’s answer to that question is superb.
Jim Hamilton
Getting Authenticity
Jim Hamilton, “What I Learned in My First Pastorate,” Towers (August 17, 2009): 4:
You don’t get this from wearing cool clothes, having a trendy name for your church or learning to preach from comedians. If it comes—and if the authenticity about “big” sins is accompanied by authenticity about “acceptable” sins—it will come by the power of the Spirit through the preaching of the Word.
Use It or Lose It
Jim Hamilton, associate professor of biblical theology at Southern Seminary, teaches both Hebrew and Greek. This week he shared some wise and motivating advice for beginning Hebrew and Greek students (though it applies in some ways to more advanced students, too):