保羅說他傳福音給帖撒羅尼迦人時，不獨在乎言語，也在乎權能和聖靈，並充足的信心(帖前1:5)，可見傳道不單是把一些正確的道理傳出去，若是這樣就只有言語或字句，保羅說他能承當新約的執事，不是憑着字句；因為那字句是叫人死，精意(或譯聖靈)是叫人活(林後3:6)。若傳道只是送出真理的字句，卻沒有聖靈的感動，乃是死的職事(林後3:7)，不能帶出生命，以下一連結有一篇文章對傳道人職事的性質有詳盡的介紹，可供參考:
http://christinallthescriptures.blogspot.hk/2011/01/and-teaching-by-james-philip_03.html
以下是該篇文章部份的引述:
“Evangelical orthodoxy can become a substitute for living, fruitful faith.”
“A man needs unction if his ministry is to do anything in this generation.”
“Let me quote to you some words from E.M. Bounds’ remarkable booklet ‘Power through Prayer”, in which he speaks of unction as ‘the indefinable in preaching which makes it preaching. It is that which distinguishes and separates preaching from all mere human addresses. It is the divine in preaching. This unction vitalizes God’s revealed truth, makes it living and life-giving, Even God’s truth spoken without this unction is light, dead and deadening. Though abounding in truth, though weighty with thought, though sparkling with rhetoric, though pointed by logic, though powerful by earnestness, without: this divine unction it issues in death and not in life.”
“This divine unction is the feature which separates and distinguishes true gospel preaching from all other methods of presenting the truth, and which creates a wide spiritual chasm between the preacher who has it and the one who has it not. It supports and impregnates revealed truth with all the energy of God. Unction is simply putting God in His own Word and on His own preacher. By mighty and great prayerfulness and by continual prayerfulness, it is all potential and personal to the preacher; it inspires and clarifies his intellect, gives insight and grasp and projecting power; which is greater than head power; and tenderness, purity, force flow from the heart of it. Enlargement, freedom, fulness of thought, directness and simplicity of utterance are the fruits of this unction.”
“The message of Christ crucified can be preached effectively only by a crucified man”
