In this article, Paul Tripp argues that good preaching should create a community of counselors. Tripp maintains that the public sermon should equip the body of Christ for the innumerable private moments of life-transforming ministry to others that occur every day. Tripp offers four propositions about preaching and concludes that the public sermon should equip the body of Christ for the innumerable private moments of life-transforming ministry to others that occur every day.