The Chief Thing According to LLoyd-Jones

My current preaching series in church on Romans 12-16 does not present as many hermeneutical issues as the previous series in Isaiah or Joshua.  This gives me some time to talk about other important matters that pertain to those of us who preach.  I'm currently enjoying the 40th anniversary edition of Preaching & Preachers which began as a series of lectures LLoyd-Jones gave at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in the late 60's.  In pages 130-131 he makes us homileticians squirm, but helps us all refocus when he writes, "The chief thing is the love of God, the love or souls, a knowledge of the Truth, and the Holy Spirit within you. These are the things that make the preacher....That is the big thing." (p. 131).