Because the gospel, especially when it is spoken out loud from the mouth of someone who isn’t us, continues to have a power over our hearts we do not have. The very strength of a Christian’s life, its very foundation, the very fact and basis of it, is its being announced by someone else. Hearing is the place where Christ finds us. The only trust we have is the one that has been rescued by hearing. The hearing of the Word is the rescue of the human heart.
