Weak point: Yell here!

I desire effect when I’m preaching. Namely, I want God’s Spirit to illuminate the truth of God’s Word to God’s people. Every preacher is to be a faithful steward and make the word of God fully known that every man would be complete in Christ. So we rightly pray for results and repercussions from our proclamation.

However, we must preach the Word rather than preach the Word. In this latter sense, aiming to create effect is abominable. From Lectures To My Students, Spurgeon said:

I tell you most seriously, that the thing called “effect,” is hateful, because it is untrue, artificial, tricky, and therefore despicable. Never do anything for effect, but scorn the stratagems of little minds, hunting for the approval of connoisseurs in preaching, who are a race as obnoxious to a true minister as locusts to the Eastern husbandman.

This is another reason why clarity has great advantage. I would rather invest my efforts in understanding and communicating the Text rather than simply increasing the volume level when my point is weak.

Ink is necessary to write with, but if you upset the ink bottle over the sheet of paper you convey no meaning thereby; so is it with sound. Sound is the ink, but management is needed, not quantity, to produce an intelligible writing upon the ear.