"It's the role of grace in sanctification that sometimes troubles us...People worry that emphasizing grace undermines obedience. Consistently preaching the necessity and the proper motivation for holiness may be the most difficult task evangelical preachers face because we culturally define grace as license rather than the biblical power of holiness...Grace is the power of obedience not the antidote to obedience."
"Most preachers think the goal of preaching is to get people to do what they don't want to do. Yet preachings highest aim and greatest power lays in convincing others of the love of God in Christ that makes the heart willing and able to do what God desires. That's the glory of preaching. [It is] not to strong-arm people into doing what they don't want to do, but to actually have such love in them arise that they want to do and are able to do what God delights in."
"Most preachers think the goal of preaching is to get people to do what they don't want to do. Yet preachings highest aim and greatest power lays in convincing others of the love of God in Christ that makes the heart willing and able to do what God desires. That's the glory of preaching. [It is] not to strong-arm people into doing what they don't want to do, but to actually have such love in them arise that they want to do and are able to do what God delights in."
-- Bryan Chapel, president and professor of practical theology at Covenant Theological Seminary
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so good! reminds me of God's kindness leading us to repentence....and obedience.
thanks!
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