Fighting the Culture War by Hearing the Word

As we fight in the cause of God and truth in our generation, one of the places to start is in a recovery of Truth; Truth revealed (in the Bible) and Truth heard (through preaching) and Truth obeyed (in faith and love and obedience).

In my sermon yesterday I called for the church to recover a right view of the Word preached and heard. Really it was a preached version of blog entries from a couple of weeks ago. You can review those if you'd like. For today though--for those who heard my message or for those who heard their own pastor preach can I make one application suggestion? Why don't you schedule time in the next day or two to listen to that message again?

Go online or get the CD and listen carefully. What I'm going to do with my family--and I think this will become a weekly practice--is schedule a 1 to 1 1/2 hour block of time weekly to sit with the family and re-listen to the Sunday AM sermon. During that time we will listen, and stop and discuss various points to make sure that important truth is being understood. This really is not that hard of a thing to do, other than in the fact that it has to break through the routine of lazy sermon listening that has too often marked my life, and of which I am repenting.

Following this we'll finish the time by asking: "What is one application of this sermon that each of us can make to our lives this week?" Thus the process of right listening will begin, and at the same time I as the head of my home will be leading my family deeper into the things of God.

On top of that I'll be equipping them to become life and culture warriors who stand in, and stand for, God's truth.

What do you think? Might it be a place to start?