Purpose in the pulpit

Wes McNabb  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Apr 2006
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PREACHING CHRIST
By Edgar Andrews
Evangelical Press. 80 pages. £4.95
ISBN 0 9500129 1 2

Preaching Christ: ‘This makes sense’. My first impressions stayed with me throughout the book. This being: this is vital, makes sense, do I as a preacher do this?

As conservative evangelicals, we all agree we must preach Christ, but to what degree and depth hugely varies. Edgar Andrews’s heartfelt plea is simple: Scripture not only commands we do, but in the Old and New Testaments all its preachers model preaching Christ. Numerous examples are given: Stephen in Acts 7 and Jesus’ own teaching of himself (chapter 7) I found most stimulating.

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