Our commission is still that which was given by our Lord himself to Paul: “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith.” Nothing less than that is the great objective of the preacher, as given to him by the Lord of Glory himself. It is this aim and purpose which makes the preacher’s office the grandest upon the earth and bestows upon him honors and laurels incorruptible, undefiled, and that fade not away, compared with which the laurels of a Caesar or a Napoleon are but withered weeds.
-Clarence Macartney, Preaching without Notes, 9-10.
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