Different pastors and church leaders in our day continue to offer their opinions on what the church should be about.

As a result, churches are often left wondering whose preferences to follow and whose authority to listen to.

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and

pastor David Platt delivered weekly.

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Well in today's new sermon from 2 Timothy, chapters 3 and 4, David Platt points us

away from the preferences of man to the Church's ultimate authority, God's word.

In this first of 12 traits of a biblical church, we'll see why the

faithful proclamation of scripture shapes everything about the church's life

and mission. Here's David Platt with a new sermon and series 12 traits of a

biblical church preaching and teaching from 2 Timothy. Well if you have a Bible and

I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with I want to invite you to open with me to 2 Timothy

chapter 3 it's in the new testament the latter part of your Bible, and pretty close, getting pretty close to the end,

2nd Timothy chapter 3.

While you're turning there, I want to welcome those of you who are gathering with us in

Montgomery County and Loud and Prince William and Orph and Microsights.

It's good to be together across Washington.

Has a church around the word, which is what we're going to be talking about specifically this morning.

So we we've spent the first 40 days of this year praying together considering how we exist as McLean Bible Church, as a community of brothers

and sisters from over a hundred different nations.

We exist to glorify God by making disciples and multiplying churches among

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