Subject: How to "win the world" ? |
Bible Note: DBLESSER I will stand with New Creature on this issue. In today's church we place the importance on everything but content. However content is crucial, if we aren’t conveying the message that without Christ we are lost and going to Hell, and that Jesus died for us sinners so that could have eternal life, we are wasting time. Jonathan Edwards was man that was near sighted so he held his Bible nearly in front of his face. He spoke in monotones without gesture or expression. In this we have the modern day recipe for dull, boredom, and guests that would never return. Yet we know when he finished many of his sermons there wasn’t a person rightly seat in the pews. They were so convicted, so distressed that they laid prostate or in humble submission before a Holy God. Crying out and weeping to a Jesus to save them, thanking Him for His sacrifice and praising His Holy name. His whole sermon was content. Content that told of our fallen state and our need for Jesus in our lives. There was no gimmicks, dramas, no programs, only sound preaching. Today all kinds of gimmicks, programs, you name it are being used yet the church really hasn’t grown since 1976, and we are seeing more and more sin within the very walls of the church. I do not see New Creature as putting down the church, I see what he said as cry to wake up from one standing on the wall! EdB |