Emphasis Preaching Journal

Fred Craddock, preaching professor at Candler Seminary, tells the story of the group of professors touring the Holy Land. At the traditional site of the Upper Room, their tour group had to wait for a group of more conservative Christians to finish their looking.

The guide for this group did not scrutinize the site as an archaeologist. Instead he treated it as a holy shrine. "Can you believe it? We are in the actual room where Jesus consecrated the cup and bread." With tears on his cheeks, he went on to recount the events of that night.