Preaching Simply

Martin Luther (as quoted in Martin Llyod-Jones, Preachers & Preaching, p. 128) offers a helpful reminder to heady preachers:

“A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply, roundly and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting…When I preach I regard neither doctors nor magistrates, of whom I have above forty in the congregation. I have all my eyes on the servant maids and the children. And if the learned men are not well pleased with what they hear, well, the door is open.”