Some time ago, two Indians who had been watching a lighthouse go up came over to see the thing open on the big day.  It was all set up with the lights and the bell and the horn; but the day it was due to open, the worst fog of all fogs came in.

One Indian said to the other, “Light shine, bell ring, horn blow, but fog come in just the same.”

We’ve never had more lights shining, and bells ringing and horns blowing in the church than we have today.  We’ve never had more fog. ~Vance Havner, sermon, On This Rock I Stand

Ministers Not Mimics! - Vance Havner

There is not only something back of us, there is SOMETHING BEFORE US: "all the world." And we also have SOMEONE WITH US: "Lo, I am with you." And let us not forget that our message is Christ Himself. We try to match the world's wit and cleverness. We try to meet it on its own ground and amuse it and entertain it. We give it a glorified hash, a religious mulligan stew of ethics and psychology and philosophy. We forget that what we have that the world doesn't have is Jesus. There is no point in trying to meet it with something it already has. We are ministers, not mimics; apostles, not apes. We are to let our light shine, and that light is Christ. It is a glow, not a glare, and we do not shine it, we let it shine.  ~Vance Havner, Jesus Only/Our Threefold Commission

Oh, if there be a place where sinners are more loathsome to God than anywhere else, it is in His church.  Of all men, who stand in the most likely place to receive the mightiest thunderbolt, and the most terrible lightening's flash, those are the men who have a divided heart, and profess to serve God, while with their souls they are serving sin. ~Charles H. Spurgeon

What would he say today?

In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell. ~William Booth 1829-1912