Pragmatism is a four letter word.
You may be living under the delusion that
because you think your city has more dogs than Christians;
is one of the least churched in America; and is spiritually darker
than any other place in our country (yeah right); that you have to
grunge up God, to preach about God. Not true grasshopper.
The sinful nature of man has not changed; the character of
the gospel has not changed; the person of our
Lord Jesus Christ has not changed.
Don't be a spiritual game show host playing with the truth.
You wanna have a "conversation" that matters?
Then spend less time contextualizing the truths of
Jesus and more time proclaiming them.
When the pulpit becomes a place of holiness and reverence,
the pews and the pedestrians will really be changed for eternity.
It's not your gimmicks, tricks, methods, and techniques that affect lives;
it is His gospel, by His grace, to His glory that only matters.
It's not about us; it's all about Him.
Think biblically/not culturally.
You may be living under the delusion that
because you think your city has more dogs than Christians;
is one of the least churched in America; and is spiritually darker
than any other place in our country (yeah right); that you have to
grunge up God, to preach about God. Not true grasshopper.
The sinful nature of man has not changed; the character of
the gospel has not changed; the person of our
Lord Jesus Christ has not changed.
Don't be a spiritual game show host playing with the truth.
You wanna have a "conversation" that matters?
Then spend less time contextualizing the truths of
Jesus and more time proclaiming them.
When the pulpit becomes a place of holiness and reverence,
the pews and the pedestrians will really be changed for eternity.
It's not your gimmicks, tricks, methods, and techniques that affect lives;
it is His gospel, by His grace, to His glory that only matters.
It's not about us; it's all about Him.
Think biblically/not culturally.
"What Is needed today is a Scriptural setting forth of the character of God-His absolute sovereignty, His ineffable holiness, His Inflexible justice, His unchanging veracity. What Is needed today is a Scriptural setting forth of the condition of the natural man-his total depravity, his spiritual insensibility, his inveterate hostility to God, the fact that he is "condemned already" and that the wrath of a sin-hating God is even now abiding upon him.
What is needed today is a Scriptural setting forth of the alarming danger in which sinners are-the Indescribably awful doom which awaits them, the fact that if they follow only a little further their present course they shall most certainly suffer the due reward of their iniquities.
What is needed today is a Scriptural setting forth of the nature of that punishment which awaits the lost-the awfulness of it, the hopelessness of it, the unendurableness of it, the endlessness of it. It is because of these convictions that by pen as well as by voice we are seeking to sound the alarm." -A.W. PINK
cf, Romans 3:10-18; Romans 3:19-20; Romans 3:21-26; Ephesians 4:1-3; Titus 3:1-8
