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Preaching Christ avoids moralising texts, approaching them to draw out moral and ethical lessons to help us live better lives.
But preaching Christ embraces the moral and ethical implications of responding to the saving work of Jesus revealed in the Scriptures.

Kyle Worley provides a guest post at Trevin Wax’s blog on Preaching Christ And Commending Virtue.
An excerpt:

During this season where those who preach are being encouraged and challenged to preach Christ, may I raise a caution?  It is both possible and necessary to preach Christ andcommend virtue.
Truly, there is no Christian virtue without Christ, and, there is no true Gospel impact upon a life without the blossoming of Christian virtue. The person and work of Christ must be the identity in which we live and work to imitate Christ.
Hebrews 13:7 challenges the Christian:

“Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.”

Surely this admonition is not a veiled moralism. The author of Hebrews tells the believer to: remember their leaders (those who preached the Word) and to consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

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