Comments for Listening Church at http://pres-outlook.net , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://pres-outlook.net Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:06:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/guest-commentary/5333.html#comment-3455 Listening Church Church Wellness Report by Tom Ehrich 7/30/07 And if you had the answer and answered the questions, would they be ready to listen, or accept the answer? There are a lot of answers around us, simple ones to simple problems and not many seem to care. - joao soares Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/guest-commentary/5333.html#comment-3430 I'm afraid Tom Ehrich sets up a false dichotomy when he says that people aren't asking questions about church doctrine or inerrancy of Scripture but are asking 'Who are you God?' or 'Why do children suffer' etc.... Isn't it because people in the pews are not instructed in church doctrine, and don't have confidence in the authority and sufficiency of Scripture that they are asking the questions Mr. Ehrich listed? As John Piper has put it, 'People are starving for the greatness of God. But most of them would not give this diagnosis of their troubled lives. The majesty of God is an unknown cure. There are far more popular presciptions on the market, but the benefit of any other remedy is brief and shallow'(The Supremacy of God in Preaching). Listening to the marketplace and identifying its yearnings and agonies is fruitless if we who are called to preach haven't first listened to, understood, and then proclaimed God's Word. - John Sheldon Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:00:00 +0100