Tony Reinke over at Miscellanies shared a series of Charles Spurgeon quotes today about Christless preaching. I recommend you go read all six quotes, but here’s two to whet your whistle:

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. [Exposition of Acts 13:13-49 published in 1904]

Leave Christ out of the preaching and you shall do nothing. Only advertize it all over London, Mr. Baker, that you are making bread without flour; put it in every paper, “Bread without flour” and you may soon shut up your shop, for your customers will hurry off to other tradesmen. … A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception and a crime in execution. However grand the language it will be merely much-ado-about-nothing if Christ be not there. And I mean by Christ not merely his example and the ethical precepts of his teaching, but his atoning blood, his wondrous satisfaction made for human sin, and the grand doctrine of “believe and live.” [sermon: “Christ the Glory of His People” (3/22/1868)]

Two quotes this week! I am very busy this week so maybe no posts… we’ll see. Without further ado, your two quotes to ponder:

“We have sometimes rejoiced greatly when we have had as many as a hundred added to this Church in a month, yet I have gone away and said to myself–’What is that hundred, after all? It is not sufficient to keep pace with the increase of the population.’ It makes us very sad to know that the increase of sinners far exceeds the increase of the converts to God.”
        ~ Charles Spurgeon

The “main problem churches face is not that they are culturally out of touch, but that they are theologically out of tune.”
        ~ Pastor Tullian Tchividjian

“Discernment is not telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is the difference between right and almost right.”
        - Charles Spurgeon

I’m going to try to post a short quote every week under the title “Weekly Wisdom.” Here’s the first one:

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon