When I hear a man preach, I want to hear a man preach from his heart. When I preach, I want to preach from my heart. Let no one mistake my meaning. I do not suggest or imply that doctrine is secondary. It is not. Gospel doctrine is vital. But the gospel must be preached from the heart, passionately.

Two hundred years ago John Rusk wrote, "I want an experimental preacher, one who, when he has had one meal, is tried how he shall get the next; one who is tormented with devils fit to tear him limb from limb; one who feels hell inside himself and every corruption in his nature stirred up to oppose God's work; one who feels so weak that every day he gets over he views it as next to a miracle."

Don Fortner
Grace Baptist Church of Danville
Danville, Kentucky