“That is our business as preachers. ‘Oh, but the preacher must catch the spirit of the age.’ God forgive him if he does. Our business is never to catch, but by eternal truth to correct the spirit of the age” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, p. 31).
The Perpetual Irrelevance of Liberalism
“Here is a man who for some reason refuses the authority of his Bible, but says he will stand by Christ. What Christ?” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, p. 25).
Otherwise There Is No Point
“The preacher should never address a crowd without remembering that his ultimate citadel is the citadel of the human will. He may travel along the line of the emotions, but he is after the will. He may approach along the line of the intellect, but he is after the will” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, pp. …
Preaching at the Intersection
“The supreme work of the Christian minister is the work of preaching . . . . Whenever we preach, we stand between those two things, between human need and Divine grace. We are the messengers of that grace to that need” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, pp. 12, 14).
No Kidding . . .
“There is a relation between what predominates in our preaching and what we deem to be of greatest importance” (Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach, 91).
T. David Gordon Says Mean Things
“Our seminary curricula are largely identical to what they were around the First World War, but the entering seminarian is a profoundly different person than was the seminarian of the early twentieth century. Then, the individual was well-read in poetry, and had studied nearly a decade of classical language (Latin, Greek, or both), learning by …
And His Kids Are Ugly . . .
“So why don’t churches routinely conduct annual reviews of their ministers? Because ministers don’t want to be told that their preaching is disorganized, hard to follow, irrelevant, and poorly reasoned” (Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach, p. 34).
But It Doesn’t Help If a Scribe Without Authority Buys a Pair of Oakleys
“What the contemporaneists and emergents have not yet considered, however, is the possibility that such moribund churches are so not because they are doing the wrong things, but because they are doing them incompetently” (Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach, p. 32).
It Gets Long After You Lost ‘Em
“I realized then that sermon length is not measured in minutes; it is measured in minutes-beyond-interest” (Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach, p. 31).
A Herald Must Enunciate
“Therefore, there is no religious use . . . in a sermon that merely discloses the minister’s opinion, but does not disclose the opinion of God. And there surely can be no use in a sermon that does not even disclose the minister’s opinion clearly” (T. David Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach, p. 19).