This post is a follow-up on my previous one, regarding Miles McKee’s efforts to awaken the Church from its spiritual stupor, all the while it is dancing about Itself and not Christ.
Here again are the two links from which my comments below are taken:
The Christ Centered Believer (SERMON BY MILES)
The Gospel and the Believer-centered Believer (TRANSCRIPT OF SAME SERMON)
NOTES:
1… We are busy (Mt.7.21-23) making self-centered GOATS into self-centered SHEEP.
2… We are busy converting the “empty” unbeliever into believers who are “full” of themselves.
3… We are busy confusing people with ideas that their being sinners is due to something they did; rather than…teaching that Adam’s sin made us sinners and Christ’s righteousness makes us saints. In other words, “redemption” is not about what God did in us, but apart from us in Christ himself. And that, it is Christ himself (Gal.2.20), who is the source of our life, that is our wisdom, our righteousness, and sanctification and redemption (1Cor.1.30).
4… We are busy making a spectacle of ourselves before a watching world, rather than our being a people who are much consumed with the Specter of Christ, through Word and Sacrament (1Cor.1.23; Col.1.28).
5… We are busy trying to IM-ME-DIATELY make people “feel good” about themselves, without exalting Christ who died for their ULTIMATE good.
6… We are busy making/maintaining ‘self-centered’ believers who remain disinterested in, bored with, Christ Jesus and Him crucified/risen.
7… We are busy curtailing our message to a culture which knows both a cheap product (culturally-relevant ministry) and a cheap imposter (Christ-less religion) when it sees it!
*** May the Lord have mercy in making us GET OVER OURSELVES!!!
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