The Preacher's Responsibility

The expositor (preacher) is only to provide mouth and lips for the passage itself, so that the Word may advance . . . The really great preachers . . . are, in fact, only the servants of the Scriptures. When they have spoken for a time . . . the Word . . . gleams within the passage itself and is listened to: the voice makes itself heard . . . The passage itself is the voice, the speech of God; the preacher is the mouth and the lips, and the congregation . . . the ear in which the voice sounds . . . Only in order that the Word may advance—may go out into the enemy walls to the prisoners world, and force its way through within (Gustaf Wingren).