For the past year or so the Lord has really been showing me the importance of the gospel and in seeing Christ in the whole Bible.  My dad posted an article on his blog a few months ago by Charles Spurgeon that I thought was a great illustration of the importance of understanding Christ being central in the Bible.  I was reminded again tonight of this article so I wanted to post it. 

From Phil Johnson's Spurgeon Archive:

Mr.
Spurgeon related a story that I believe would be excellent for every
preacher to read at least once a week. It is a story of a young English
preacher delivering a message before a renounced pastor of many years.
Upon finishing his sermon, the young man went to the old pastor to ask
how he had done: "What do you think of my sermon, sir?" he asked. "A
very poor sermon indeed," he said. "A poor sermon!" said the young man,
"it took me a long time to study it." "Ay, no doubt of it." Why, then,
do you say it was poor; did you not think my explanation of the text to
be accurate?" "Oh yes," said the old preacher, "very correct indeed."
"Well, then, why do you say it is a poor sermon? Didn't you think the
metaphors were appropriate, and the arguments conclusive?" "Yes, they
were very good, as far as that goes, but still it was a very poor
sermon." "Will you tell me why you think it a poor sermon?" "Because,"
he said, "THERE WAS NO CHRIST IN IT." "Well," said the young man,
"Christ was not in the text; we are not to be preaching Christ always,
we must preach what is in the text." So the old man said, "Don't you
know, young man, that from every town, and every village, and every
little hamlet in England, wherever it may be, there is a road to
London?" "Yes," said the young man. "Ah!" said the old preacher, "and
so from EVERY TEXT in Scripture there is a road to the metropolis of
the Scriptures, that is CHRIST. And, my dear brother, your business is,
when you get to a text, to say, 'Now, what is the road to Christ?' and
then preach a sermon, running along the road towards the great
metropolis - Christ. And," he said, "I have never yet found a text that
had no such road, I will make a road, I would go over hedge and ditch
but I would get at my master, for a sermon is niether fit for the land
nor yet for the dunghill, unless there is a savour of Christ in it."