The Sermon
- Aug 27, 2008
- Series: Church Meeting
Continuing our series on the "Sunday Meeting", this week we turned our attention toward the pulpit and the preaching of God’s Word. Our our aim was, once again, to elevate or heighten our expectations for our times together. What exactly do you expect to happen when one of your pastors mounts this pulpit? What are you hoping for? May it not be that the net result of years upon years of sermons are just some good laughs and a few tears. I hope we won’t we’ll look back and realize we had settled...expectations low...happy just to have made it through awake! No! We want to think of what happens here as the epicenter of church life, of all that we are and all that we do! The power of God to save and sanctify. Words of life and godliness. The declaration, the proclamation, the heralding of the Gospel. The Invincible Weapon of the church. As Dr. Piper says..."expositional exultation." Text upon text, uncovered, elevated, surveyed, and celebrated. The weight, the glory, the grace and mercy of God being delivered at maximum volume and maximum force out, emanating from here to our ears and all who will listen. May we look back some 20, 30, 50 years from now and conclude that like a beacon ordained and established by God Himself, the truth and glory of God had shined bright and clear.
Here are three interlocking convictions or principles that define for us what we understand and believe about the preaching of God’s Word in the public assembly:
God speaks and we preach
We preach and God works
God works and God is glorified
For more, please listen to “The Sermon" delivered this week by Eric Turbedsky.