The Problem of Gospel-less Gospel-Centered Sermons
We are in an era of wonderful gospel-centered seminaries, gospel-centered books, gospel-centered ministries, and gospel-centered preaching. But we have a problem.
It’s great that people are preaching about Jesus and how salvation comes by grace through faith. Gospel-centered preaching helps people see how parenting, forgiveness, and serving are rooted in the gospel. We’ve learned to talk about Jesus and his work as the motivation for holiness, and as the means as well—the nuclear core of the Christian life. And I want to shout hallelujah as loud as anyone that our generation is making known that the whole Bible tells one story about our Carpenter King.
But none of that is the whole gospel.
My great concern is that while our generation has grown in preaching and teaching in a gospel-centered way, we are forgetting the whole gospel in the process. I fear we are losing and assuming the gospel in our attempts to be gospel-centered. We must realize the differen…
