The unregenerate religious mind believes that to attract, involve and maintain folks within the congregation, one must constantly invent new ways to excite them. Most places of religious activity concern themselves with having a place for every group that can be named. While concentrating one what they think are the needs of the group, church leaders, through the blindness of their hearts, miss the need of sinners. The need of a sinner is a Savior, Redeemer, One who will stand and answer for him before God’s holy law. This Savior is Jesus Christ the Lord. He is revealed only by the proclamation of His word. His Word is about Himself, so the preaching of the Word is the Preaching of Christ. To set Him forth as the Beloved Son sent from heaven to accomplish the Fathers eternal will to save a people chosen to salvation out of every nation, kindred and tongue. To proclaim Him as the obedient Servant Who, as the elects representative, obeyed the Holy Law in word, thought and deed is to preach Christ. To herald Him as the spotless Lamb of God who actually laid down His life a ransom for many, and under Divine Judgment, took the full punishment of God Almighty and died in the place f His Elect, is to preach Christ. This message may appear nothing more than weakness and folly to the unbeliever, but this is the message that honors God. This is the message that the Holy Ghost will bless to the saving of God’s people, and this is the message that the saints long to hear:
“We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1.23-24)