7 Cultural Challenges to Biblical Discipleship
By Joseph Mattera:
One of these challenges is diluted pulpit preaching:
Diluted pulpit preaching:
"Unfortunately, much of the preaching today in Evangelical churches reflects the American cultural dream of success; hence it is more like "Christianity lite” than the biblical gospel. It is usually a sermon meant to make people feel good, self-empowered, and self-actualized, with the name of Jesus and some biblical principles attached to the message. This lack of scripture-saturated, biblically dense preaching will leave believers in a continual state of immaturity. Most people cannot mature as Christ’s followers without a steady diet of sound biblical teaching. Those who depend merely upon "self-help” preachers to feed them the word will lack the understanding necessary to discern the difference between right and wrong, good and evil (1 Corinthians 3:1-3; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrews 5:12-6:3). Consequently, churches that only deliver this kind of preaching will fail to nurture biblical disciples. "