This third type of preaching—the grateful account of God’s saving deed in the midst of the assembly of the saints—is, from a New Testament perspective, especially important, inasmuch as the early Church from the very beginning identified with Jesus Christ and was partially defined by the cry of the dying Redeemer from the Cross, by the suffering just man of the psalms, who is called into life only by passing through death and in just this way testifies to the divine power.
