Thursday, August 25, 2011

Piper #2 - The Aim of preaching

The Aim (Point 1 of 5)

A deeper faith

Wants us to consider deeply the nature of saving faith. What is the nature of faith? What is the 'main' feature of a saving faith?

Not simply intellectual recognition, else we share that saving faith with the devil...

To 'receive him as your lord and saviour'? Doesn't do enough. The question is, what drives people?

What's their treasure.
Phi 3:8 "everything else is garbage compared to God". That's what I want to awaken in my people. It is then that they are believing him, receiving him for who he is.

So, the aim?
A Spirit-given treasuring of Christ as supremely (above all else) valuable