To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work · H. C. G. Moule

CHAPTER XI.

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PREACHING (ii.).

Further remarks on Attractiveness—And, in passing, on Ministerial Considerateness—This is to be practised in preaching—As well as in other functions—Attractiveness to be guarded by Faithfulness—Requisites to attractiveness—"Preach the Gospel earnestly, interestingly, fully"—Jesus Christ is the Gospel—Personal conviction the essence of Earnestness—"Matter-of-Fact"—Interest sustained by anecdote and illustration—But still more by intelligibility and practicality—Expository sermons—Fulness in the message—Jesus Christ for us—And in us—The Holy Spirit must work with the Word 249