Preaching First to Own Heart

Preaching First to Own Heart

Matthew 23:3; James 1:22

No man preaches that sermon well to others that does not first preach it to his own heart. He who does not feed on, and digest, and thrive by, what he prepares for his people, he may give them poison, as far as he knows; for, unless he finds the power of it in his own heart, he cannot have any ground of confidence that it will have power in the hearts of others.

John Owen (1616 – 1683)