He came to talk about effective Christian preaching in a "broken" and sinful world.

The second coming of Jesus was thought to be coming immediately, and before it, the sinful world would receive its punishment.

His message was simple and primarily emotional: the sinful world could be redeemed by Christ.

And I'll tell a sinful world it looked awful good, too.

Nay, demon, my works are needed in the sinful world of fallen man!

They tell about a sad and sinful world.

And who can save such a sinful world?

And we should accept it also for the sake of our sinful world.

God's grace, normally hidden from our sinful world, could be revealed in human history through a miracle.

It's a sinful world and I'm no different from anyone else, so why be harsh on me?