The Gospel Project
One of the things that came out of our time at the Church Planting Assessment Center is that I need to work on the gospel-application portion of my sermons. I don’t have much problem explaining what the gospel is, but applying it to the experiential aspects of our lives in a way that causes us to worship is another matter.
So in order to work on this, I’m creating a month-long gospel project for myself (I had meant to start at the beginning of the month, but it came and went without my permission). Every day for a month I’m going to write a short (or maybe long) “thing” about the gospel. I’m not really sure what form this will take. It will probably include many different approaches, from explaining a passage of Scripture to a more apologetic approach. But the goal in every case is to connect the gospel with the heart-issues of broken people like myself.
I have no idea if I’ll be able to pull this off. And I have no ideas waiting in the wings to start of with. So we’ll see how it goes. This is really a project to stretch and develop my preaching, and I suppose failing at it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
So, with that in mind, The Gospel Project begins tomorrow…
Update March 8:Ok, so I’m clearly not going to be able to keep up with this everyday posting thing, but I’m going to keep working on this project. My new goal is to post every other day.
