“The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person … Our task is … the sharing of intense faith and experience.”

—  Halford E. Luccock

As quoted in "Religion : Go Ye and Relax?" in TIME magazine (20 April 1953)

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