PREACHING
AND THE GOSPEL MESSAGE

I would like to see no questions asked as to what denomination a chaplain belongs, but let the question be, “Does he preach the gospel?”

“Stonewall” Jackson, on the recruitment of army chaplains

Preaching and the gospel message

The celebrated lawyer, Blackstone, had the curiosity early in the reign of George III, to go from church to church to hear every clergyman of note in London. He says that he did not hear a single discourse which had more Christianity in it than the writings of Cicero, and that it would have been impossible for him to discover, from what he had heard, whether the preacher were a follower of Confucius, of Muhammad or of Christ!

J.C. Ryle

Preaching and the gospel message

Brethren, first and above all things, keep to plain evangelical doctrines; whatever else you do or do not preach, be sure incessantly to bring forth the soul-saving truth of Christ and him crucified.

C.H. Spurgeon