the aims of all genuine preaching are “to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.”2 In other words, God is the goal of preaching, God is the ground of preaching, and all the means in between are given by the Spirit of God.
