Today is pastor's day at Resolve so we thought that we would take the opportunity to share this quote with you from 'Memoirs and Remains of Robert Murray McCheyne' by Andrew Bonar.
'Surely in putting forth his hand to sow the seed of the kingdom a man should even tremble! And surely we should aim at nothing less than to pour forth the truth upon our people through the channel of our own living and deeply affected souls... It was his wish to arrive nearer at the primitive mode of expounding scripture in his sermons. hence when one asked him if he was ever afraid of running shorty of sermons some day? he replied. 'No; I am just an interpreter of scripture in my sermons; and when the Bible runs dry, then I shall.' And in the same spirit he carefully avoided the too common mode of accommodating texts,- fastening a doctrine on the words, not drawing it from the obvious connection of the passage. he endeavoured at all time to preach the mind of the Spirit in a passage; for he feared that to do otherwise would be to grieve the Spirit who had written it.
From personal experience of deep temptation, he could lay open the secrets of the heart so that he once said, 'He supposed the reason why some of the worst sinners in Dundee had come to hear him was because his heart exhibited so much likeness to theirs.' Still it was not doctrine that he preached; it was Christ, from whom all doctrine shoots forth as rays from a centre... 'It is strange how sweet and precious it is to preach directly about Christ compared with all other subjects of preaching.' p64-65
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