Doing Surgery with a Table Knife

Sanctification and the modern preacher

I recently noticed that my preaching had become preachy. That may sound nonsensical to some, but to me it was unsettling. My understanding of how people change had drifted off center, which is no small thing. Such a drift is so concerning that, as chronicled by Tim Chester in his book John Stott on the Christian Life,¹ it led Stott to publicly challenge …