Applying God's work to every aspect of life.

This is Theology Applied.

All right, welcome listeners.

This is Pastor Joel with another episode of Theology Applied in this podcast.

We are really doing our best by God's grace to not just take a particular doctrine

or a particular text and exeat it, but to actually take the truth of God's word and apply it

to every realm of life. Faithful preaching is not coming before people of God and saying,

I have an idea, or I have a concept, or I have a strategy, but it's coming before the people of God and saying, I have an idea or I have a concept or I have a strategy, but it's coming

before the people of God and saying, I have a text. It's not man's word, it's God's word. And then

faithfully interpreting that text, not the meaning that we want to impute onto the text, but actually

saying, no, this is God's word, and this is what God

means by His Word. But faithful ministry, faithful preaching, faithful conversations, they actually

go even beyond that. There is a revelation, a text from God's Word. There is an interpretation,

faithful exegesis, but there's also application. And that's often where the

church of God, especially in this season and our nation, tends to get offended. They don't always

get offended when we say this is what God's word means. But we certainly tend to take up an offense when we say,

and in light of this, this is how you should live. This is what you should do. And so contrary to popular

belief, faithful ministry, it applies to our lives and not just to our marriages and our parenting

or to Sunday mornings as we gather as a church,

but we want to see all of Christ applied through his word to all of life, to politics,

to entertainment, to the marketplace, to media, to all these aspects of human society. Jesus has something to say about all

of it, and his lordship is reigning over all the earth, over all things. And so we want to

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