Erik Raymond:
Sometimes we as pastors just assume that by being there and doing things the way we always have that we are helping push the gospel line forward. We would never think that we (our ministry leadership, cadence and preaching) might be hindering or worse yet, sabotaging the gospel advance. These things are good for us to evaluate and think through. For the glory of Christ, the sake of others, our ministry, and Christ’s church, pull the car over and think it through.
Here are some signs that you may be sabotaging the gospel in your church:
Those who sit under your preaching regularly describe their salvation in the first person (I believed in Jesus, I asked Jesus into my heart, I had faith) and not in the third person (God redeemed me, God declared me righteous, Christ died for me).
Your people are under the impression that the greatest commandment & the golden rule are the collective centerpieces of Christian ethics and not the Gospel which saved them from the consequence of having failed both. (P.A.)
Your sermons contain five things to do, but omit the one person they can turn to when they fail to accomplish the five things to do.
When you preach from the OT people see their need to emulate the lives of Abraham, Moses and David, but never realize that Abraham, Moses and David needed the righteous life of Christ.
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