Comments on: “Do You Know About This?”

By: Pastor_Chris

Pastor_Chris — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:21:39 +0000

The message of the cross is the most important message we have. Something I observe about Stanley’s preaching, is that no matter what the topic, he comes back to the need for Christ and His death on the cross.

Even in our messages about wisdom for life from the Scriptures, the cross is what introduces us the power of God for living.

May I continue to share on the cross as I preach and teach.

Pastor Chris
http://www.evangelismcoach.org

By: jacksonperdue

jacksonperdue — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:32:04 +0000

I’ve been reading/listening for a while now, Michael, and just wanted to say thanks a lot for what you do and write. I resonate with a lot of what you say, and even when I don’t I appreciate the way you think and go about it. You are helping to enrich my walk with Christ, so thanks.

Also, great personal story about your dad here. And it’s a good reminder to pay attention to the content of what we’re saying. In the day-to-day it can be easy to think “oh, I’ll present the Gospel this week because that fits into the flow of the series.” But unless we’re tying everything back to the Gospel and the Cross we’re sort of missing the point anyway. Morality tales and tips on better relationships are sort of useless if they arne’t tied to the Cross.

By: peterfoxwell

peterfoxwell — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:47:40 +0000

Michael:

I once heard Charles Stanley tell a group of preachers that he came to a point in his ministry where he went through all his sermons and threw most of them out because they were not Gospel-centered.

Your use of story in this post is very effective. I won’t soon forget it. Hopefully, it will remind me to make Christ and his cross the theme of all my preaching.

Thanks.

Peter

By: danjcase

danjcase — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:38:45 +0000

Michael,
In 1986 I was 24 years old, down and out and admitted to participate in the addiction recovery program at the Keswick Colony of Mercy in Whiting, New Jersey. Keswick had been started many years before by a british man who had been gloriously saved and transformed by the gospel of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. The program was (and still is to the best of my knowledge) thoroughly biblically-based. I was taken under the wing of a middle-aged married couple early on in my stay there who put into my hands the very 6 tape series by Charles Stanley you have written about in your post. It thrills me to hear of the impact it had upon your Dad…that same series was used by the Lord to bring a clear presentation of what the Lord Jesus wrought on my behalf as well at Calvary…after hearing that message of messages (the message of the cross – it just happened to be preached by Dr. Stanley) I was transformed and have never been the same to the praise of the Lord God of heaven…Thank you for sharing about your Dad and about the cross of our lovely Savior…