‘Soft Preaching’ Produces Hard People
A popular Christian author and pastor says one can look to Jesus when it comes to dealing with false teachers and bad theology.
In his newest book The Jesus You Can’t Ignore, John MacArthur looks at the Lord’s many personal, often explosive encounters with the religious teachers of his day. MacArthur says although Christ was compassionate to those who were needy, he had a different tactic with proud, arrogant religious leaders.
“[In his] first public act, he took a whip, went into the heart of Judiastic religion — the Temple itself — and started throwing people out of there, overturning tables of moneychangers, overturning the tables in the operations of the buyers and sellers of animals,” the noted author shares. “He condemned the whole place because it was to be a house of prayer, and they had turned it into a cave of robbers.”
MacArthur says there are many false teachers today who are not preaching the full gospel.
“We have the idea today that we need to preach this sort of soft, amiable kind of message, [that] we need to tell people what they want to hear,” he laments. “But the truth of the matter is, soft preaching produces hard people. Because soft preaching affirms them, tells them they’re fine, [that] you need to grab your dreams….”
And while MacArthur acknowledges that the gospel makes people uncomfortable, he says it prepares hearts for the only cure for sin — which is Jesus Christ.
(Source: OneNewsNow)
