Preach God's Word, Boldly, and nothing else!

something that has bothered me a lot over the last couple years in a lot of different churches. Is this toning down, dumbing down, simplifying of the Gospel. too many pastors now a days are worried about growing their church telling funny jokes making people laugh. When they should be worried about convicting God's people of their sin, preaching the Word faithfully, boldly without hesitation and equip God's people to go out and share their faith. Some people call this trend "seeker sensitive" or "church growth". This has always been something that's bothered me, but I really haven't noticed how un-Biblical it is until I watched a couple of the following clips. When I was attending together for the Gospel Mark never did a lesson on the centrality of the Gospel. Matter of fact, the title of his lesson was "improving the Gospel; exercises in un-biblical theology". prior to this together for the Gospel event, I always felt that pastors were more worried about pleasing the people then they were honoring and glorifying God in their preaching. Now I know, a lot of pastors don't wake up on Sunday morning and say, how can I please people. I think many of them have motives that are good (as much as our motives can be good with out following God's plan), but is that biblical? so watch the next couple clips. The first one is by Jim McCarty about seeker sensitive churches, the second clip is of RC Sproul and the third clip is of Alistair Begg. I have also added a link to Mark Dever's, hour-long presentation from together for the gospel.

I hope that God uses this post to speak into some hearts on what the purpose of preaching and the church is. I think Paul in 2 Timothy 15 could of benefited from the seeker sensitive model of building a church. Everybody in Asia was turning their backs on him because he would boldly, unequivocally, without hesitation, without taking the offense out, He preached the Gospel and he preach it hard!







"Improving the Gospel; exercises in un-biblical theology" by Mark Dever