For a preacher to be stale or uninteresting is a very serious offense. Let the minister not plead lack of time to study or for sermon preparation. Lack of desire to study usually is as much to blame. Exaggeration and Dishonesty Exaggeration is a form of dishonesty, and it is a sin. The pulpit should have sacred regard for truthfulness of expression as well as of fact.
Exaggeration indulged in becomes a habit.
In the beginning the tendency may seem too small to notice, but eventually the manner of speaking becomes too strong to be broken. Conformity to the world has in all ages proved the ruin of the church. It is utterly impossible to live in nearness to God but in friendship with the world. The man that is of the world is in the embrace and kingdom of one whose very nature is anti- Christian. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.