PREACHING:
WATERED DOWN; PASTORAL MINISTRY: SHALLOWNESS

Admittedly, this is not an easy concept for us to grasp. We are not used to stretching our minds! The preachers of our generation are failing us. They are not forcing us to crank up our minds and to exercise our souls in the contemplation of God’s eternal themes.

Too many preachers are satisfied to dwell primarily on the escape element in Christianity. I acknowledge that the escape element is real. No one is more sure of it than I. I am going to escape a much-deserved hell because of Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection from the grave. But if we continue to emphasize that truth to the exclusion of all else, Christian believers will never fully grasp what the Scriptures are teaching us about all of the eternal purposes of God.

John 3:16; Acts 20:20, 24–27; Ephesians 4:14–16; 1 Peter 2:1–2

Jesus, Our Man in Glory, 25.