The Training Arc.

Every pastor has preached a sermon that was theologically correct and pastorally dead on arrival.

The exegesis was right. The outline was tight. The application was clear. And somewhere in the middle of delivering it, you looked at the person who needed that sermon most and realized it was not reaching. Not because the words were wrong. Because the person saying them had not yet been through the thing the words were about.

There is a difference between having the right theology and being the kind of person from whom the right theology can land. That gap is not a knowledge gap. It is a formation gap. And it is the single most important thing nobody tells you in Bible college.