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A LETTER TO THE CLERGY
Does today's Christian preaching ministry to congregations have a flaw? My sincere conclusion has to be yes. But this flaw can be easily corrected. I do not mean to be critical in any way, as I do so want all pastors to be tremendously successful in their highest calling.
We know the word of God comes from His omniscience. We know that omniscience is necessary to proclaim truth, and thus the Scriptures are the only possible source for truth in the entire universe. Without omniscience, there is only human opinion. This means the most powerful weapon in the universe is the Word of God, and if it appears to be ineffective, it can only be because it is being wrongly applied.
We need to realize that atheism has brilliantly attacked Christianity and the Word of God by attacking the first doctrine in the Bible, the doctrine of creation, with the evolutionary theory. The church has answered by basically retreating and trying to compromise the Bible. The unbeliever sees this and concludes that if the first verse of the Bible is not true, and the church is quiet on the subject, then why should he pay any attention to what is said in Matthew, John, or Acts.
Evolution masquerades as science preacher, but it is not science. Science comes from the latin scientia, and means knowledge. Science is wonderful, it gives us airplanes, computers, automobiles, CAT scans. Science depends on observation and experimentation and repetition of these processes. Evolution is only a wrong theory about the past that has never been observed, cannot be demonstrated, and has no known process of function.
The clergy do not seem to realize the congregation is receiving a daily bombardment from the media and the government educational system promoting evolution as science, and thus telling the congregation that the Bible is not and cannot be true and accurate.
The pastors do a wonderful job of telling us 'what Jesus did' complete with twelve points, but a very poor job of telling us 'who He is', viz. the Creator who made all things out of nothing.
I am certainly no expert on preaching, but I am an expert on listening and observing and have noticed that 'who He is' does not get front billing. I believe the preachers are afraid to preach what the Bible clearly says, because they are afraid they might look foolish in the eyes of the world since the world worships science so called and naturalistic science says there is no supernatural. Preacher, if you want to receive some real flak from the world, just start preaching Genesis 1-11 and say it is true as written. The humanists know where the front line of this battle is; so buckle your seat belt if you decide to do this for your Creator.
Sidney C. Phillips M.D. 1999
