Mason Plunk’s Reviews > The Christian Ministry > Status Update

“Even while Christ is the text, self may be the spirit and substance of our sermon, as if we are lifting up the cross of Christ, to hang our own glory upon it.”—pg.327

“Christian experience is the influence of doctrinal truth upon the affections. Except therefore we exhibit the principles of the truths of God, we cannot excite those exercises which connect the heart with him. That preaching, however, which is merely descriptive of Christian feelings, irrespective of their connection with scriptural doctrine, is unsubstantial and defective; whereas an intelligent statement…

“If we should study the Bible more as ministers than as Christians— more to find matter for the instruction of our people, than food for the nourishment of our own souls; we neglect to place ourselves at the feet of our Divine Teacher; our communion with him is cut off; and we become mere formalists in our sacred profession.”—pg.163

“‘Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high,’ the wilderness, notwithstanding the most diligent cultivation, must remain a wilderness still.”—pg.81