Spurgeon: “There may be times when church government is to be discussed, and peculiar doctrines are to be vindicated. God forbid that we should silence any part of truth: but the main work of the ministry—its every day work—is just exhibiting Christ” (The New Park Street Pulpit Sermons, vol. 3 [London: 1857], 369). Newton was once asked what makes effective preaching? “Effect, I believe,” he responded, “has been produced in my preaching by a solemn determination to bring forth Jesus Christ as the great subject in all my discourses” (Eclectic, 20).
