Hi Yankee,

This question has somewhat been addressed before in this thread

https://www.the-highway.com/forum/showfla...prev=#Post41815

Although I agree with Pilgrim over 99% of the time, this is one of the few things I've disagreed with him about. I do agree with Pilgrim in his other posts in this thread that altar calls, 42 verses of "Just as I Am", artificially forcing Christ into the text (I apologize for my poor paraphrasing here), etc. are to be avoided. But I've never been convinced that there is not a proper way to include Christ in every sermon and stay faithful to the text at hand. I still think that I would be disappointed to not here Christ mentioned at all in a sermon.

John