Preaching | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 6, 1864

Preaching.

Be simple in your preaching, Jesus was—Paul was—and all successful preachers have been so.

Be not too rapid, such preaching is like the hasty shower, rather imitate the steady rain, which soaks, softens, fructifies.

Preach down sin, and preach up holiness.

Preach down self, and preach up Christ.

Preach prayerfully as before God.

Preach to the conscience and the heart.

Aim to please God in every sermon, and in every sentence.

Never let the flock stray for want of pasture; let there be food for the soul in every sermon.

It is grievous to think how many go away from sermons with the word of grace in their ears, but not the work of grace in their hearts.—Ex.