Motives ....

From "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis:

"Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him. For it doesn’t stop at being interested in paint, you know. They sink lower—become interested in their own personalities and then in nothing but their own reputations."

This strikes me hard. How tempting it is to love the telling more than the thing I tell! It's something we all, writers, musicians, painters, preachers -- everyone who spreads the gospel by any means and through any medium, must guard against.