rather than a “manufacturer.” For this reason, we must be devoted to the Word of God, meditating on it daily, studying it systematically, reading it continually, and always feeding our own souls and preparing to feed our people. “Set your heart upon God’s Word!” Charles Spurgeon told his London congregation. “It is the only way to know it thoroughly; let your whole nature be plunged into it as cloth into a dye.”2 The authority of the message comes from the Word and not from the approval