These days there are a lot of sermons about being successful, obtaining blessings, becoming prosperous, etc. We seldom find messages about sanctification, godly living, Christian discipline etc. Why don't we have messages as such from C.H. Spurgeon, John Wesley, W.E. Sangster, Eugene Peterson, Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones, C.S.Lewis and Selwyn Hughes who shook the Christian world through their messages and writings. These men of God all concentrated on the most important aspect of Christian living which is grace, Christian discipline and pleasing God.
There are rarely any messages preached these days. And sometimes when these seem to be sidetracked, we find that born-again Christians very less Christ-like...And because of this Christian preaching and gospel sharing by half-baked Christians seem to have very less effect on the outside world.
The Church need to have the right focus before building leaders and preparing its people for evangelism. Only then can it ever be fruitful in God's kingdom at the same time build and establish God's people in the way they ought to be...
2 Timothy 4:2-3 (New International Version)
2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
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