“I believe that it is because the doctrines of grace have been too much kept from the pulpit, that the pews are getting so empty.
“Leave the doctrines of grace out of the preaching, and you have left the marrow and fatness out of it. “What is there to make the people rush to your houses of prayer, and crowd them, if there be no preaching of the election of grace, — no declaration of particular redemption, and effectual calling, — no proclamation of the blessed final perseverance of the saints? “If you leave these glorious truths out of your preaching, you have put on the table nothing but the horseradish and the parsley, but the joint of meat is conspicuous by its absence.” — Charles Spurgeon