Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Preacher's Goal

George Marsden beautifully expounds on how Jonathan Edwards crafted sermons:
"With his usual thoroughness he fashioned his sermonic architecture. At the foundations of his edifice he systematically closed every seam that might allow people to gain a glimmer of a supposition that their salvation was partly their own doing. So he forced them to look toward the dome around which he crafted windows that framed the light of God's ways."
Jonathan Edwards, "A Life." p. 141

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