“It is well and good for the preacher to base his sermon on the
Bible, but he better get to something relevant pretty quickly, or we
start mentally to check out.” That stunningly clear sentence reflects
one of the most amazing, tragic, and lamentable characteristics of
contemporary Christianity: an impatience with the Word of God.
The sentence above comes from Mark Galli, senior managing editor of Christianity Today in an essay entitled, “Yawning at the Word.”
In just a few hundred words, he captures the tragedy of a church
increasingly impatient with and resistant to the reading and preaching
of the Bible. We may wince when we read him relate his recent
experiences, but we also recognize the ring of truth. Continue at Al Mohler
No comments:
Post a Comment