J.I. Packer

All of us who preach the gospel, I suppose, desire men’s conversion. Many, no doubt, are concerned also to glorify God by a faithful declaration of his truth. But how many, when preaching the gospel, are consumed by the longing to magnify Christ — to extol the richness, freedom, and glory of his grace and the perfection of His saving work? The cheap and perfunctory way in which the person of the Savior is sometimes dealt with in modern evangelistic preaching forces this question upon us … (we must be) concerned above all things to honor Christ: to show his glory to needy men and women … to recover the overmastering concern to exalt this mighty Savior.