Covenant Reformed News – January 2018 • Volume XVI, Issue 21
This article critiques the failure of Protestant ministers to adequately teach ecclesiology (the doctrine of the church) from the pulpit, identifying three primary causes: insufficient expository preaching beyond soteriological themes, the prevalence of Sunday evening gospel services that leave little time for church doctrine instruction, and ministerial reluctance to address controversial topics on which congregants disagree. The author argues that this neglect contributes to a low, sub-biblical view of the church throughout evangelicalism and calls for Reformed ministers to prioritize comprehensive biblical instruction on the nature and practice of the church.
Pulpit Failure Regarding Ecclesiology Through compromising with the ungodly world, liberal Protestantism has lost the infallible Scriptures, the blood of Christ’s cross, the gospel of grace, etc. Thus it is apostate and a manifestation of the false church. However, not all is well with evangelicalism either. One of its big problems is that of a low, sub-biblical and non-creedal view of the church. Why? How has this widespread malaise gotten hold? A major reason is that of pulpit failure....