Educating Your Congregation

 Things churches too often don’t have the courage to address in a direct manner, from their pulpits, that they should:

1.) Church history. It should at least be taught to a congregation in a basic overview sort of way, and your people should be taught your congregation’s theological roots. If you aren’t addressing it head on, why not?

2.) Systematic theology. Not laying doctrine out in a systematic way simply leads to a confused people.

3.) The cults and heretics of the present day. You need to be able and willing to tell people, from the pulpit, what’s wrong with Mormonism, Unitarianism, Joel Osteen, etc. Expecting them to just take your basic preaching through the Bible and figure it out on their own isn’t enough.

4.) A basic approach to politics and the culture.

If these things aren’t taught systematically in Sunday morning worship, they need to be taught in some other fashion, in the church, during the week. You can’t just leave it to the people to figure these things out for themselves alone. They won’t.