Wanted: Foolish Preaching

Speaker: Pastor Raleigh Sims


Scripture Focus: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31


Description: The Church has what the world
doesn’t want: God’s Law, which always accuses us sinners, and His
Gospel, which allows for no boasting on our part. To this day,
Jewish leaders teach that God will not demand what we cannot
achieve. What a stumbling block, preaching a Messiah who becomes
a sacrifice for our failings, both in our actions and our very
nature. The polytheistic society of Paul’s day and the secular
one of ours both find the Law an encumbrance, preferring to judge
by their own standards (or lack of them). What folly, our society
believes, to preach a God who chooses people whom everyone knows
to be weak. Today is a day for foolish preaching: Christ
crucified, the power and wisdom of God.