Sola Deo Gloria

I have been reading the book “Fools Gold” by John Macarthur and wanted to share this particular thought.  Please read and comment.

“People who sit under superficial preaching become dependent on the cleverness and the creativity of the speaker.  When preachers puntuate their sermons with laser lights and smoke, video clips and live drama, the message they send is that there isn’t a prayer that people in the pew could ever extract such profound material on their own.  Such gimmicks create a kind of dispensing mechanism that people can’t use to server themselves.  So they become spiritual couch potatoes who just come in to be entertained, and whatever superficial spiritual content they get from the preacher’s weekly performance is ALL they will get.  They have no particular interest in the Bible because the sermons they hear don’t cultivate that.  They are wowed by the preaher’s creativity and manipulated by the music, and that becomes their whole perspective on spirituality.”