Christ as Preacher

“If we are truly to understand Christian preaching, we must see Jesus christ as its center. First we must see Jesus as the fulfillment of generations of preaching and teaching that went before him, and second we must see Jesus as the type, or perhaps prototype, of generations of preaching that have followed him. He is both the pattern of preaching and the gospel to be preached” (Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, Vol. 1, p. 8)