A Better Way to Live

Highly recommend Gospel-Driven's blog entry describing a better way to live in contrast to the danger and prevalence of Exemplary and Moralistic preaching that is all too common in most evangelical churches. John begins his entry...

While on family vacation, we attended a local, Evangelical church for two consecutive Sundays. Both Sunday services clearly illustrated one of the great problems with the Evangelical church in America, the prevalence of Exemplary and Moralistic preaching and the near non-existence of true Gospel preaching.

(Note: For those who may not be familiar with the concepts of Exemplary and Moralistic preaching, here are two definitions:

Exemplary preaching- Preaching that uses Biblical characters and situations as moral examples to be imitated. This kind of preaching dominated all of my summer youth camps while growing up and the vast majority of the Sunday School material I was taught [e.g., Life Lessons From David and How to Slay the Giants in Your Life].

Moralistic preaching- Preaching that centers on informing believers of the necessity, value and particulars of right conduct as revealed in Scripture and then exhorting them to apply themselves to such conduct.)

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