Is the Old Testament disappearing from pulpits?
And if it is present, are the sermons more likely to be of the “Top Five Leadership Principles David Learned While A Shepherd” or ‘Daniel’s Good Eating Plan” or “Eliminate Your Credit Card Debt – God’s Prosperity Purpose For You in Jeremiah” variety than expositions which unfold God’s eternal plan of salvation for His people through the Lord Jesus Christ?
David Murray asks why the Old Testament seems to have disappeared as the subject of preaching texts.
Some surveys put the ratio of Old Testament to New Testament sermons at 1 to 10. Some would like it to get nearer zero to 10.
But might this imbalance in the spiritual diet of most Christians explain many of the spiritual problems in the modern Church and in the modern Christian? Or as Gleason Archer puts it: “How can Christian pastors hope to feed their flock on a well-balanced spiritual diet if they completely neglect the 39 books of Holy Scripture on which Christ and all the New Testament authors received their own spiritual nourishment?”
He then offers eight reasons why he thinks this is so, along with a solution.
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