Can We Please Stop Preaching About All The Good People In The Bible?

The way we have traditionally approached character-based sermons has a tremendous flaw.

There are no “good” people in the Bible—at least not in the theological sense—except for Jesus. Everybody else is wrecked and ruined by sin and desperately in need of a Savior. So the way we have traditionally approached character-based sermons has a tremendous flaw. Here’s the traditional approach...

1. Tell the story of a Bible character.
2. Highlight the good stuff they did.
3. Challenge people to follow their examples.

I’ve done plenty of that kind of preaching in my life in ministry, and I wish I could go back and re-preach them all from a totally different perspective. There are some major flaws with this kind of preaching. Read More

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