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By Peter Sellick, published 30/9/2008There is a danger that in these days of the almost universal failure of the church, preaching becomes an exercise in damage control.
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It is preaching first.. then belief, then fellowship/baptism/growth to maturity.
The preaching should be connected to the contemporary situation I agree....but it must inevitably end at this point:
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
"We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.
All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
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The above was Peters message to a Gentile family of a man named Cornelius who's heart God had prepared.That my dear Oj is the goal of preaching. To invoke repentance in the human heart, and faith in Christ Jesus for forgiveness of sin and newness of life.
That can be your experience, and the same goes for every OLO poster.
Preaching points to a man, an event... a reason, and a resurrection.