SERMON ILLUSTRATION BY SPURGEON use this illustration in your own preaching to describe the church's

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your own preaching to describe the church's witness.

The gospel is something like an illustrated paper. The preacher’s words are the letterpress, but the pictures are the living men and women who form our churches. And like when people take up such a newspaper, they very often do not read the letterpress, but they always look at the pictures—so in a church: Outsiders may not come to hear the preacher, but they always consider, observe, and criticize the lives of the members