Preach Magazine Issue 5 - Preaching to the unconverted | Page 19

FEATURE

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CONTEMPORARY CULTURE HAS
LED TO THE FRAGMENTATION
OF WORLDVIEWS AND A LOSS
OF ANY SHARED PERSPECTIVE.
PREACHERS NEED TO GRASP
THIS POINT.

PROVIDE THE EVIDENCE

Preachers
need to grasp
this point. As they
study and prepare they
need to read the text of
the Bible through the eyes
of sceptical or enquiring
friends. What difficulties
does this passage present? What
objections are provoked?
We should not even take for granted
that anyone is interested in the
passage. Why must I care about
an ancient text? Charles Spurgeon

addressed this issue of relevance. He
noted that not every field of speech
meets with a lack of interest: ‘I have
heard of some very strange things,
but I never did hear of a person going
to sleep while a will was being read in
which he expected a legacy, neither
have I heard of a person going to sleep
while the judge was summing up,
and his life was hanging in jeopardy.’2
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