from Today's Gospel: Authentic or Synthetic by Walter Chantry:
"Much of modern preaching is anaemic, with the lifeblood of God's nature absent from the message. Evangelists centre their message upon man. Man has sinned and missed a great blessing. If man wants to retrieve his immense loss he must act thus and so. But the Gospel of Christ is very different. It begins with God and His glory. It tells men that they have offended a holy God, who will by no means pass by sin. It reminds sinners that the only hope of salvation is to be found in the grace and power of this same God. Christ's Gospel sends men to beg pardon of the Holy One.
There is a wide difference between these two messages. The one seeks to blaze a trail to Heaven for man while ignoring the Lord of Glory. The other labours to magnify the God of all grace in the salvation of men."
"Much of modern preaching is anaemic, with the lifeblood of God's nature absent from the message. Evangelists centre their message upon man. Man has sinned and missed a great blessing. If man wants to retrieve his immense loss he must act thus and so. But the Gospel of Christ is very different. It begins with God and His glory. It tells men that they have offended a holy God, who will by no means pass by sin. It reminds sinners that the only hope of salvation is to be found in the grace and power of this same God. Christ's Gospel sends men to beg pardon of the Holy One.
There is a wide difference between these two messages. The one seeks to blaze a trail to Heaven for man while ignoring the Lord of Glory. The other labours to magnify the God of all grace in the salvation of men."
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