Congregation Quote by Vance Havner

Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

— Charles Grandison Finney

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

— Charles Spurgeon

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the…

— Vance Havner

If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

— Charles Spurgeon

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

— Frank Dane

Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of…

— Kevin DeYoung

Our calling as gospel ministers is to preach the truth, confront sin, and call all men to repentance and obedience to the gospel -…

— John MacArthur

If the church doesn't minister to sinners, then who will?

— Abby Johnson

“Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“We do not preach against people, we preach against sin.”

— Alin Sav