Tim Patrick and Andrew Reid, The Whole Counsel of God: Why and How to Preach the Entire Bible. Crossway, 2020. 256 pages.
My commitment to expositional preaching fortified early in my ministry. In my first five years, I watched the same married couple’s faces freeze, look wounded, and occasionally fill with tears, when I addressed divorce from passages like Matthew 5 and 19, Genesis 2, or 1 Corinthians 7 Many people in the congregation had been divorced in the early 70s within a church context that taught that divorce and remarriage were essentially unforgiveable sins.
I finally spoke to one of our divorced members before a sermon on the topic. His response emboldened my preaching ministry: “Pastor, you are the first preacher who has not done a topical series on marriage or divorce. You only talk about it when it’s in the next text, and so I know that you are not picking on me. Instead, I know that’s what God wants us to hear. Please, just keep preaching the Word.”
Such is the power and authority of the pastor who preaches the entire Bible—it’s what God wants his people to hear.
PREACHING THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD
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