{"id":34200,"date":"2022-09-10T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/evangelistic-preaching-and-doctrine\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:19:07","slug":"evangelistic-preaching-and-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/evangelistic-preaching-and-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelistic Preaching and Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book&nbsp;<em><em>The Evangelism Mandate<\/em><\/em> (Kregel), David Larsen argues that the effective evangelistic sermon needs to be doctrinal. He says, &#8220;One denominational director of evangelism urged preachers to &#8216;preach Christ and not doctrine.&#8217; But to preach Christ is to preach doctrine. It is not a question of whether we will present doctrine or not, but of what kind of doctrine we will present.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;J.H. Jowett contended. &#8216;We must preach on those tremendous passages whose vastness almost terrifies us as we approach them.&#8217; The grand themes of redemption, sin, salvation and much more are necessary themes. People are tired of trifles; they hunger for life-changing truth. T.S Eliot&#8217;s J. Alfred Prufrock lamented, &#8216;I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.&#8217; We have the privilege of preaching texts with Grand Canyonesque dynamics of infinity and eternity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/evangelistic-preaching-and-doctrine\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book&nbsp;The Evangelism Mandate (Kregel), David Larsen argues that the effective evangelistic sermon needs to be doctrinal. He says, &#8220;One denominational director of evangelism urged preachers to &#8216;preach Christ and not doctrine.&#8217; But to preach Christ is to preach doctrine. It is not a question of whether we will present doctrine or not, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/evangelistic-preaching-and-doctrine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evangelistic Preaching and Doctrine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}