Tim Challies draws a comparison between drinking his coffee straight and hearing the Bible taught straight (section-by-section rather than jumping around verse to verse).
Then one day we visited another church in the area and an amazing thing happened: The pastor simply preached a text. He opened the Bible, he told us what it said, and he told us why it mattered. It was a tough text, but he did not water it down or run from it. He felt no need to add to it or adapt it. He just preached it. And it was amazing. Once we had tasted that undiluted Word, we realized how delicious it really was. We were ruined to anything less. We still are.
He’s absolutely right about how delicious the undiluted word is.
But he couldn’t be any more wrong about coffee, though. The foul stuff poisons no matter how one takes it.
Agreed, about how beautiful and powerful the Word of God is in its undiluted form, and about how awful coffee is in any form 🙂