Back in the late 70s, I met with a minister whose church we were considering to attend.

And the first thing he said to me,

I don't believe in sermons that I preached.

I believe in sermons that are lived.

I said, that's a nice cliche. I understand that. Well, after hearing him preach, I surely

understood what he meant. I found out that the use of the cliche was more of an excuse

for not faithfully preaching the Word of God. It was a sad day when preachers gave up preaching

spiritual truth. Today, there when preachers gave up preaching spiritual truth.

Today there are preachers who resort to pop psychology,

preachers who resort to platitudes and moralism.

There are preachers who resort to man-centered sermons,

and there are preachers who resort to sermons that were designed to

make people feel good instead of being good. And we have preachers who preach sermonettes

abound. And all they're producing are Christianists.

In fact, I heard about one of these ministers who was preaching one of those kind of philosophical mumbo-jumbo that I wouldn't even understand.

And the six-year-old boy tugged on his mother's sleeve, and he kept tugging on his mother's sleeve.

He says, Mommy, mommy, are you sure this is the only way to go to heaven?

It was C.S. Lewis, who tells of how he went to hear a sermon that was preached by young Anglican minister. And the young preacher saw C.S. Lewis, I'm sure if he C.S. Lewis,

he panicked. But he saw C.S. Lewis in the congregation, and he C.S. Lewis, he panicked, but he saw C.S. Lewis in the congregation,

and he basically said, and I quote, he said, if you will not believe in Jesus Christ,

you will suffer grave eschatological ramifications.

Afterwards, C.S. Lewis came out to the young preacher. He said,

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