It is not the work of the pastor to say whatever seems relevant or
whatever seems noncontroversial or whatever is especially interesting to
itching ears. Our responsibility, before God and for the sake of God’s
people, is to declare the whole counsel of God (Acts 10:27).
The teachers of the church must disclose all of the glorious parts in
Scripture and all the hard parts, all the promises and all the
warnings, all the blessings and all the curses, all the parts that make
us smile and all the parts that make us wince.
While we do not like to upset people and we do not wish to be thought
uncouth, we answer to a higher authority. It is the solemn task of the
preacher–weak and failing though he may be–to stand fast as a watchman
on the walls. We cannot shrink back from the uncomfortable bits in the
Bible (Acts 20: 20-21, 25-32). If we see the sword coming upon the land and refuse to blow the trumpet, the blood of the perishing will be upon our hands (Ezekiel 33:1-6). Continue at Kevin De Young
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