“Spiritual eloquence should arise out of the preacher’s almost desperate love for the gospel truth itself and the people for whom accepting the truth is a matter of life and death” (Keller, Preaching, p. 14).
Something that often seems to be forgotten, the truth is not a thing, it is a person.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life…”
We can quite easily fall in love with our own theology, our own “gospel truths,” and completely forget the personhood of the one calling Himself Truth. When that happens the words may flow out on the tongues of angels, but they are just sounding brass.
Something that often seems to be forgotten, the truth is not a thing, it is a person.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life…”
We can quite easily fall in love with our own theology, our own “gospel truths,” and completely forget the personhood of the one calling Himself Truth. When that happens the words may flow out on the tongues of angels, but they are just sounding brass.