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Reliable preachers

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Author and new pastor of Coral Ridge Pres. Church, Tullian Tchividjian (grandson of Billy Graham), writes about How To Identify a Reliable Preacher. He has five helpful questions:

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#1. Does the preacher ground everything he says in the Bible?

#2. Does the preacher freely emphasize that because of sin, a right relationship with God can only be established by God’s grace alone?

#3. Does the preacher stress that salvation is not achieved by what we can do, rather salvation is received by faith in what Christ has already done?

#4. Does the preacher underline that Christ is the exclusive mediator between God and man?

#5. Does the preacher exalt God above all?

Ponder these… and pray for your preacher today.
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Duties of Sermon-hearers

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Let us all be reminded of the good counsel that the Westminster Larger Catechism provides about hearing sermons:

Question 160: What is required of those that hear the word preached?

1140201_bible_in_pewAnswer: It is required of those that hear the word preached, that they attend upon it with diligence, preparation, and prayer; examine what they hear by the scriptures; receive the truth with faith, love, meekness, and readiness of mind, as the word of God; meditate, and confer of it; hide it in their hearts, and bring forth the fruit of it in their lives.

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