Theocast
What Happened to Preaching?
August 3, 2022
Summary
The guys continue the series on the means of grace by discussing preaching. What has happened to the preaching of the word of Christ? Jon and Justin begin by distinguishing preaching from teaching. Then, they consider the preaching event. It is an event. (Live streams and sermon audio is not preaching.) The guys conclude with a lengthy discussion on the content of preaching. Preaching is to extol and herald the person and work of Christ in the place of sinners, and preaching requires the right dividing of law and gospel.
Topics
- Episode focus: What Happened to Preaching?
- The guys continue the series on the means of grace by discussing preaching
- What has happened to the preaching of the word of Christ?
- Jon and Justin begin by distinguishing preaching from teaching
- Then, they consider the preaching event
Transcript
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Hi, this is John, and today on Theocast, Justin and I are continuing our series on the means of grace.
We're going to be covering preaching.
Specifically, we're going to be covering three different areas: what is preaching and how that's confused.
The event itself: that preaching is the gathered body of Christ, it's not a live stream, and why that is so important according to scripture.
And then, lastly, what is preached is important, that it must be pointing us to Christ.
And so we give an explanation from Scripture of how we should be preaching all of Christ from Scripture.
And in the Separate from Monda podcast, we take on some questions where people maybe criticize Christ in their preaching.
Criticisms that have come from the past from people like John Piper.
We hope you enjoy.
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Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.
Conversations about the Christian life from a reformed, confessional, and pastoral perspective.
Your hosts today are Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina, and I am John Moffat.
I'm the pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Springhill, Tennessee.
And Justin, it is good to be here with you, my friend, as we continue this series through the means of grace.
And just one announcement: Justin and I are going to actually be spending some time together in Knoxville here in a few weeks.
And so we're excited about that.
We're going to be creating some more content, working on a book that we're hopefully going to be finalizing, and most importantly, enjoying fellowship.
