Stop preaching to "felt needs"

Albert Mohler has written well on what's wrong with preaching to felt needs. He gives several valid reasons, but this one cuts to the heart of the matter:

. . . preachers who believe they can move the attention of individuals from their "felt" needs to their need for the Gospel will find, inevitably, that the distance between the individual and the Gospel has not been reduced by attention to lesser needs. The sinner's need for Christ is a need unlike all other needs -- and the satisfaction of having other needs stroked and affirmed is often a hindrance to the sinner's understanding of the Gospel.

Amen (HT: Theocentric Preaching).