SERMON ILLUSTRATION FROM SPURGEON describes the importance of holy living.

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your preaching to describe the importance of holy living.

 

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.