Sermon Taster
IllustrationStory★★★★Dr. Andrew Bonar tells the story of a plain man from one of the Scottish country kirks who learned the precious doctrine of the second coming of our Lord. At one time he spent a week in Edinburgh playing the part of a “sermon taster,” going to a number of churches to see what they taught. When he returned to his village, the people asked him how he liked the Edinburgh preachers.
He said, “Well they all fly on one wing. They preach about the first coming of Christ, but they don’t say a word about His second coming.”
There are a great many preachers of whom this might be said today. There is nothing that arouses the fervor of evangelism, a missionary passion, and a yearning for personal holiness as does the realization that Jesus is coming soon, coming in person, coming Himself. The thought come to us that we must be ready, that others must be ready, and we must do our part to announce the glorious truth to the world.
The point
A Scottish man critiques Edinburgh preachers for focusing only on Christ's first coming, not His second, which should motivate evangelism and personal holiness.