A Reason to Be a Happy Pastor

"..., be amazed that they come back for another sermon.  'If some men were sentenced to hear their own sermons,' Charles Spurgeon wrote. 'it would be a righteous judgment upon them, and they would soon cry out with Cain, "My punishment is greater than I can bear."'"  But our people come back Sunday after Sunday.  Ponder that, and you'll increasingly be a joyful pastor."  C. J. Mahaney, "Happy Pastors" in "Tabletalk, September 2011."