Too Generous
IllustrationStory★★★A coloured preacher once said that a good many of his congregation would be lost because they were too generous. He saw that the people looked rather surprised; so he said— “Perhaps you think I have made a mistake, and that I ought to have said you will be lost because you are not generous enough. That is not so; I meant just what I said. You give away too many sermons. You hear them, as it were, for other people.”
D. L. Moody, Anecdotes and Illustrations (©1898, public domain)
The point
A preacher warns that hearing sermons only for the sake of others, rather than applying them yourself, is its own kind of spiritual neglect.
Scripture
James 1:22
Audience
Adults
Tone
Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 81 words
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