The Folly of Christless, Gospel-less Preaching

I have told my church on many occasions to "beware of teachings." The Christian, Evangelical world is full of "teachings" that are full of good things, but do not point to Christ. Jesus is not needed for these teachings to be true or have merit. Paul said that he only preached Christ and him crucified. That means that everything that the Apostle Paul taught flowed from the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It should be the same with us, lest we be taken captive by humanistic, empty idolatry.

Matt Chandler is a young pastor from The Village Church (http://hv.thevillagechurch.net/) in Texas that I have learned to appreciate over the last couple of years since I first heard a clip from him on Steve McCoy's blog. Even though I have only heard him a time or two, he left an impact on me when I did. Now I know why: he lives and preaches to exalt Christ alone. Amen to that!  Here is a video of him at the Desiring God pastor's conference.  Michael Spencer (iMonk) posted this and I had to link to it here. Read Michael's post and the resulting comments for some more good commentary on this and watch the video and tell me what you think:

Comments

[Antje]

Thanks for posting this one; very enlightening. Encourages me as "sheep" to listen carefully if the shepherds voice I am hearing is the real thing.

Thanks for blogging, Mr. Cross.

[Dr. Paul W. Foltz]

just ran across your blog again. will be reading it.