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1 | Theological Term: Divine Providence | Job 23:13 | DocTrinsograce | 151381 | ||
How about this one, Hank? "I know of one denominational official who, when asked how to preach on texts that seem strong on predestination or election or the sovereignty of grace, said something like, 'O, I think you can preach on those texts without letting people know what you think. It's possible to be sufficiently imprecise so that you don't upset people.' That attitude toward doctrine and preaching is the source of widespread weakness and shallowness in our churches. It is a tragedy when we believe that we are serving the cause of God by surrounding the peaks of his glory with a fog of ambiguity. If our people are ever going to have a global faith and a global vision we are going to have to stop hiding from them the Biblical proportions of the majesty of God." --John Piper In Him, Doc |
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2 | Theological Term: Divine Providence | Job 23:13 | Hank | 151388 | ||
Doc, I'm convinced that there are churches today where, should the pastor preach a strong, biblically-based sermon on the wrath of God: sin, judgment and hell, half of the congregation would walk out during the sermon and the other half would call an emergency meeting and fire the pastor. A good percentage of "televangelists" don't preach the gospel of Christ. They preach, if we dare call it preaching, a namby-pamby, watered-down feel-good assortment of fluffy nonsense. They know well what people want to hear and are willing to pay for. As a consequence, the people get the powder-puff nothingness they want to hear and the preacher gets his pockets lined with lots of green-backed pieces of paper, the kind Wal-Mart and the Mercedes dealer will accept in exchange for merchandize. I've seen so much erosion in sound doctrine in my 70 years, it makes my skin crawl to think about it. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Theological Term: Divine Providence | Job 23:13 | BradK | 151405 | ||
Hi Hank, Your observation is, sadly, on the mark. In a similar vain is the topic of homosexuality. Not to gloat, but our pastor last week in preaching through Romans, hit the topic of Homosexuality head-on with his sermon "Is gay ok?" from Chap. 1. (No, it's not biblically). He truly spoke the truth in love- and did not gay-bash but held to what scripture teaches. Interestingly, we had two "plants" in the audience- right up front, who were going along with the worship service right up to the reading of scripture. Both men then got up and walked out. In our second service, he (pastor) had a lady afterwords tell him she had some issues with his sermon, etc. But, to my knowledge, none of our congregation walked out:-) I'm proud that he had the courage to "preach the Word"! I would submit that most politically incorrect subjects like Homosexuality, and yes, even a Wrathful God aren't very popular. So, as liberal and unchurched as the Northwest is, there is still a small pocket that holds fast to the Word! BradK |
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