'When you or I stand to preach in a local church, we see before us the seeds of reassembly for a broken world. And we have in our mouths the DNA of those seeds. As we preach to them week by week, those seeds grow and are shaped by grace. And we and they together form the societies that alone can build a broken world by grace. As Peter puts it (1 Pet.1:22-25), new birth comes by an imperisable seed and that seed is the preached word...'
Christopher Ash, The Priority of Preaching, p.78.
