An Essential Part of the Offering

“The exposition of Scripture in course became one of the biggest planks in their platform of Christian revival. To them it was an essential component of a Christian worship that was according to Scripture and after the example of the ancient church. To these Reformers the sermon was an act of worship. It was the fruit of prayer, a work of God’s Spirit in the body of Christ; it was the doxological witness to the grace of God in Christ” (Hughes Oliphant Old, Worship, pp. 73-74)