Healthy churches are marked by expositional preaching and gospel doctrine. The reverse is also true. Churches that fail to teach the Bible are unhealthy.
What does an unhealthy church look like? It’s a church where the sermons often veer into cliché and repetition. Worse yet, they become moralistic and me-centered, and the gospel is recast as little more than spiritual “self-help.” Conversion is viewed as an act of human resolve. And by varying degrees, from bad to worse, the culture of the church is indistinguishable from the secular culture surrounding it.
Such congregations do not herald the tremendous news of salvation in Jesus Christ, to say the least. This is why every church needs a biblical understanding of evangelism.
On the one hand, if our minds have been shaped by what the Bible teaches about God and how he works, as well as by what it teaches about the gospel and what sinful human beings ultimately need, then a right understanding of evangelism will generally follow. We will attempt to spur on evangelism principally through teaching and meditating on the gospel itself, not through learning methods for sharing it.
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