{"id":9349,"date":"2024-02-11T17:33:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T12:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/pastor-what-do-you-preach-to-people-who-cant-get-their-act-together\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T12:03:43","slug":"pastor-what-do-you-preach-to-people-who-cant-get-their-act-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/pastor-what-do-you-preach-to-people-who-cant-get-their-act-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor, What Do You Preach to People Who Can\u2019t Get Their Act Together?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"video\">\n<div class=\"graphic alt-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pastor, What Do You Preach to People Who Can\u2019t Get Their Act Together? (Ray Ortlund &amp; Sam Allberry)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e5RBZpTIRlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2>More Grace<\/h2>\n<p><em>Ray Ortlund<\/em><br \/>I understand this question personally because for decades I preached sermons that were of the nature of law as opposed to gospel, and I didn\u2019t even realize what I was doing. I thought my responsibility was to open up the Bible and preach expositionally about how Christians can behave better. And that\u2019s a valid concern and a legitimate matter for a pastor to address.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn\u2019t understand the larger wraparound category that gives hope to sinners who are not behaving well\u2014which is all of us. So the grace of God became very precious, sacred, powerful, captivating to me when I went through my own gospel renaissance twenty-plus years ago. And now all I want to do is explain and trumpet and lift up the grace of God for undeserving sinners like me, because I\u2019ve seen it turn my life around.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product-placement list-item clear\">\n<div class=\"product-placement-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/books\/youre-not-crazy-tpb\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.crossway.org\/studio-files\/media\/e8951e15bbcd79b500a469bab57484f04006405b.jpg\" alt=\"You're Not Crazy\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\">\n<h3><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/authors\/ray-ortlund\/\">Ray Ortlund<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/authors\/sam-allberry\/\">Sam Allberry<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"copy-excerpt\">In this practical guide, seasoned pastors Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry help weary leaders renew their love for ministry by equipping them to build a gospel-centered culture into every aspect of their churches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Sam Allberry<\/em><br \/>Titus 2 tells us that it\u2019s the grace of God that teaches us to say no to ungodliness. But I think it\u2019s so easy for us to think, <em>Well, grace gets us in, and then we need the preacher to really sock it to people to get them changing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But if people aren\u2019t growing in godliness, Paul is saying they need more grace. They don\u2019t need scolding by the pastor. They don\u2019t need lots of challenge. They need more grace. <\/p>\n<p><em>Ray Ortlund<\/em><br \/>I believe that. Yes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry are coauthors of<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/books\/youre-not-crazy-tpb\/\">You\u2019re Not Crazy: Gospel Sanity for Weary Churches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"clear\"\/>\n<div class=\"blog-post-author clear\">\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/static.crossway.org\/authors\/small\/1580.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Allberry\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p><strong>Sam Allberry<\/strong> is the associate pastor at Immanuel Nashville. He is the author of various books, including <em>What God Has to Say About Our Bodies <\/em>and <em>Is God Anti-Gay?<\/em>; and the cohost of the podcast <em>You\u2019re Not Crazy: Gospel Sanity for Young Pastors<\/em>. He is a fellow at the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-post-author clear\">\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/static.crossway.org\/authors\/small\/2883.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Ortlund\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p><strong>Ray Ortlund<\/strong> is the president of Renewal Ministries, the pastor to pastors at Immanuel Nashville Church, and a canon theologian with the Anglican Church in North America. He is the author of several books, including <em>The Death of Porn<\/em>; the Preaching the Word commentaries on Isaiah and Proverbs; and <em>Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel<\/em>. He is also a contributor to the <em>ESV Study Bible<\/em>. Ray and his wife, Jani, have been married for fifty years.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<hr class=\"clear\"\/>\n<h2>Related Articles<\/h2>\n<hr class=\"clear\"\/>\n  <\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n        n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n        document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '506435969522616');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/pastor-what-do-you-preach-to-people-who-cant-get-their-act-together\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Grace Ray OrtlundI understand this question personally because for decades I preached sermons that were of the nature of law as opposed to gospel, and I didn\u2019t even realize what I was doing. 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