Something Worth Saying

“The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.”  C.H. Spurgeon

The only thing worth saying from the pulpit is Jesus Christ.  Yet, today there are too many people who clamor but we want something relevant.  As if Jesus Christ is not relevant.  For too many Christians, Christ is how we enter the Christian life but not how we live the Christians life.  When we forget that we need Christ to live the Christian life, we become self-righteous pharisees who focus on how good we are, not how good Christ is.

That is why Luther said,  "May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint.  I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help who believe in the forgiveness of sins."  Think about it.