Nine Marks of a Healthy Church Intro. Class 1

This is the introductery class to Mark Devers study of the Nine Marks of A Healthy Church.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote in his great classic "Preaching and Preachers."pg 64-65 Quote:Preaching must always be theological, always based on a theological foundation. We should be particularly careful when we preach on isolated text and deal with each one seperately. The reason for that, of course isthat we may well find ourselves becoming guilty of contradictions.We deliver a message on the basis of one text, but because it is not related to the others, and to the whole, when we come to deal with another text we say something that contradicts what we have said in the first sermon. The way to avoid that is to maintain the interrelationship... There is no type of preaching that should be nonTheological A type of preaching that is sometimes..regarded as non-theological is evangelistic preaching You‘bring people to Christ'as they put it; and then you teach them the truth. It is only subsequently that theology comes in.That,to me,is quite wrong, and indeed nonsense. I would be prepared to argue that in many ways evangelistic preaching should be more, rather than less theological, than any other, and for this good reason. Why is it that you call people to repent? Why do you call them to believe the gospel? You cannot deal properly with repentance without dealing with the doctrine of man, the doctrine of the Fall, the doctrine of sin and the wrath of God against sin. Then when you call me to come to Christ and to give themselves to Him, how can you do so without knowing who He is, and on what grounds you invite them to come to Him, and so on. In other words it is all highly theological.