Today I am thankful for contemporary preachers who model what the Puritans called “plain” style preaching.
This style of preaching, according to William Perkins, did three things:
1.It gave the basic meaning of the text of Scripture within its context;
2.It explained the points of doctrine gathered from the natural sense of the text;
3.It applied the doctrines “rightly collected to the life and manners of men.”
—Meet the Puritans (Reformation Heritage Books, 2006), 694.
Sounds to me like a guaranteed recipe for relevance, in case that interests you.
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