The church must come back to confidence in God's way of doing God's work.

That blueprint is a blueprint that God guarantees.

We're living in strange times in terms of how the church functions. We have been caught up with a fierce desire to find a way to relate to this culture, this world out there that has been immunized to Christianity.

We're trying to find new ways, new methods to reach the loss. And that motivation is a righteous one, because we should have compassion

for the lost. We should have a zeal for reaching the lost. The danger is when we ask the lost,

how they want to come into the kingdom of God, how they want to come into the kingdom of God, how they want to worship God, and how they want to hear the word of God, and then tailor our strategy

and our method to their tastes and their preferences.

Dear friends, that's fatal.

And sooner or later, the church must come back to confidence in God's way of doing God's work.

Because the Bible does give us a blueprint for evangelism.

It gives us a blueprint for reaching the lost, and it gives us a blueprint for generating spiritual

growth among the people of God. And that blueprint is not a matter of rocket science or of Madison

Avenue technology. It is a blueprint that God

guarantees will not be fruitless, because in the first instance, it is to be accomplished by the method of proclaiming the Word of God.

That power that changes lives, that power that purifies the soul soul is the power of God, the Holy Spirit, working in and

through the Word of God.

And God has established a church, a fellowship and communion of believers to gather for mutual support and edification and encouragement

to be a group of people who in their assembly experience an extraordinary kind of love

and that that grace that comes through the preaching of the

word is confirmed by the sacraments that Christ has given to his church, and strengthened by the

discipline of prayer, personal, and corporate.

Whatever else we try to do to make the message attractive to a fallen world,

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