Moral responsibility in Christian preaching emphasizes the accountability of believers for their intentions and actions before God. It highlights that true responsibility depends on the motives of the heart, not merely external results, reflecting the call to righteous living and stewardship (Romans 14:12, 2 Corinthians 5:10). Illustrations often use the contrast between hidden motives and visible deeds to convey this truth.
Intentions determine moral responsibility, not just the outcome of actions.
The attendant on King William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow which glanced against a tree, and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design; and, on the other hand, a man who should lay in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire. Whately.
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