Oops, my sermon just went anthro
No preacher sets out to be anthropocentric. It usually happens when preachers try to be relevant by crossing the gap between the world of Scripture and the world of today, but fail to
Relevance
Preaching to felt needs
One of the reasons sermons become anthropocentric is that they set out to address felt needs. This approach can lead us into trouble because, according to Will Willimon, we live in a culture
The immense world of the Bible
Eugene Peterson compares us to warehouse dwellers, who spend our whole lives in a warehouse and don't even know that a world exists outside. When we open the Bible, we enter
Idolatry
From Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places:
A huge religious marketplace has been set up in North America to meet the needs and fantasies of people like us. There are conferences and gatherings
God is not relevant, he is the measure of relevance
From Connexions:
Indeed I'd suggest that the fundamental malaise of contemporary Christianity is precisely its substitution of a problem-solving God for a God who is ultimate mystery.
For many people, God