We are told in the Bible, “It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” (I Cor. 1:21). So God cannot get along without preaching, if He is to get men saved. All the Sunday school organization, all the educational and social work the church can do cannot substitute for God’s plan. “It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” Lost men cannot get along without preaching, because they cannot be saved without the preaching of the Word. It is true that an individual may preach to an individual. A Sunday school teacher may preach to her pupil. A father or mother may preach to a child. But the Bible plan is also that there shall be preaching of a God-appointed and God-anointed man before congregations. That is the example and precept of the Bible, both in the Old and New Testaments. Preaching, then, is of surpassing importance in God’s plan of saving men. Nothing can take the place of preaching. Hence, we need a reviv
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