Prophetic Preaching by CHRISTIANITY TODAY INT'L & General Editor

Author:CHRISTIANITY TODAY, INT'L & General Editor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781598569230
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Published: 2012-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

Lee Eclov is the senior pastor of the Village Church in Lincolnshire in Lake Forest, Illinois, and a featured preacher for PreachingToday.com.

WHEN GOD IS REVEALED, KNEES BOW

Mark Driscoll

Preaching isn’t for wimps. According to Mark Driscoll, prophetic preaching is an unrelenting assault on spiritual strongholds. And everyone has strongholds, those thick walls that block us from experiencing Christ’s presence. Driscoll exhorts preachers to use God’s Word as a blunt weapon that attacks and dismantles those strongholds. It’s not an easy task, but whoever said that war is supposed to be easy? Even so, as you read this short chapter, you’ll also catch Driscoll’s infectious joy about preaching. It’s the joy of watching God work to take the walls down and set the captives free. In the end, that’s worth the fight.

An expository sermon that exceeds an hour seems like a foolish way to reach postmodern people. Yet Paul tells us that though our message and our method (preaching) are foolishness, God uses them that he might get the glory.

Mars Hill Church is a postmodern church with an average age of less than thirty. We’ve grown to more than two thousand in attendance. With other leaders I’ve cofounded Acts 29, a peer-to-peer network that has planted churches throughout the United States and around the world.

We’ve discovered that all the hype about experience seeking is not true. Postmodern people aren’t seeking experiences; they’re seeking God. And the point of preaching is to unveil him. An experience is a shadow of God, the visible result of a person’s encounter with Christ, not Christ himself.

If we chase after experiences with all the candles and labyrinths and trappings of postmodern worship, we merely chase after shadows. But just as the primary point of Scripture is to reveal God, so the primary point of expositing that Scripture is to reveal Christ.

In studying a passage to preach, I ask three questions:

Who is God?

How is he revealed in this text?

What are the most natural inclinations that resist or deny that truth?

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