Rodney Mills

“The famous nineteenth-century British preacher Charles Spurgeon was bold in his insistence that every sermon lift up Jesus for all listeners to behold. He complained that he often heard sermons that were “very learned . . . fine and magnificent,” yet all about moral truth and ethical practice and inspiring concepts and “not a word about Christ.” Here is what he says about such preaching, evoking the words of Mary Magdalene: “They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. I heard nothing about Christ!”18 He is right. Unless we preach Jesus rather than a set of “morals of the story” or timeless principles or good advice, people will never truly understand, love, or obey the Word of God.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism