Rewired for the Journey

  Entertain me, please! This seems to be the mantra of American congregations to preachers. In a capitalistic society if you can be an entertaining preacher you can keep that paycheck going from week to week. Maybe better yet you can get a TV show to jump around in front of your audience with all sorts of props and offer free glow-in-the-dark crosses for only a seed offering of twenty-five dollars. Free? This Placebo preaching is just to please people and get their wallets open but it does not teach them sound doctrine. Sadly, what is really lost is the preaching of solid Biblical doctrine. This creates just feel-good Christians with no sound understanding of their faith or what Jesus truly is requiring of them. The slightest problem or crisis that comes along and it knocks them off their spiritual feet like a leaf on a branch in a Fall breeze. How can a Christian share the gospel if they do not know what or why that gospel is and why Peter tells us in 1 Peter 3:15 which says "Alw