Good Preaching

I do believe that we slander Christ when we think that we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

We know that the greatest crowd in London has been held together these thirty years by nothing but the preaching of Christ crucified.

Where is our music? Where is our oratory? Where is anything of attractive architecture, or beauty of ritual? "A bare service," they call it.

Yes, but Christ makes up for all the deficiencies.

-- Charles Spurgeon in "The Crisis of This World"