So deplorable a state!

So deplorable a state!
Charles Spurgeon

1 Corinthians 2:1, "When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God."
Many pastors have grown 'professional' in their service, and preach like automatons, wound up for a sermon, to run down when the discourse is over.
They have little more care for the souls of men, than if they were so much dirt!
Too many pastors are fascinated with . . .
technical trifles about words,
fancies of speculation,
or fopperies of oratory.
God forgive us if we have fallen into so deplorable a state!
"For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites.
By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people." Romans 16:18