CM152 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons II: Communicating a Theology of Grace
Overview
In this course, Dr. Bryan Chapell looks at the theology of grace that runs through Scripture and culminates in Jesus Christ. He explains how seeing the Bible through a redemptive lens can help you preach in a way that brings hope and motivates people to serve Christ. The goal of preaching is to excavate the grace of God that is giving people hope, so that they are now motivated by love for Him rather than dread of Him or desire to satisfy Him who cannot be satisfied. If they understand that they’re already made right with Him by the grace of God, then they have hope. The hope gives them love, and in love for Him, they will seek to serve Him with greater energy, strength, effort, than anything else we can provide. Dr. Chapell shows you how to use this redemptive approach in your sermons, particularly in sermon application. Building on these concepts, he then teaches you to preach through different biblical genres such as history and law, poetry and prophecy, and others.
Top Highlights
“‘The common denominator of all great preaching in all the ages is that all great preaching gives people hope—particularly, gives them hope in the gospel, not in their efforts, not in their performance or competence but, rather, in God’s provision that is greater than their failures and greater than their weaknesses and greater than their lack of knowledge.’” (source)
“‘There’s hope for you yet. God is not loving you on the basis of what you do. He is loving you on the basis of your faith in what Christ has done. Your faith in His accomplished work, your confidence in His mercy, more than anything that you do, will give you confidence in Him. And when you have hope again, you have the willingness to walk with Him again.’” (source)
“But it’s not. I want to, with all honesty and integrity, remind all of us there is no more powerful human motivation than love. What drives the mother back into the burning building? It is love. Guilt is not a more powerful force. Greed is not a more powerful force. Intimidation is not more powerful. Fear is not more powerful. The most powerful human motivation is love. And what promotes that love is our understanding that our God has given us hope—hope in what He provides, not hope in what we do.” (source)
“Well, what we do does not actuate the grace of God. The disciplines—prayer, reading Scripture, fellowshipping with God’s people—are ways that we actually experience [or] open our hearts to receive the grace of God that’s already there, not by our performance, not by our greater competence. Rather, we’re taking in what God has already provided, understood experientially by the disciplines that God allows us to have in order to further, as it were, imbibe the wonders of His grace.” (source)
- Title: CM152 Preparing and Delivering Christ-Centered Sermons II: Communicating a Theology of Grace
- Author: Bryan Chapell
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible › Homiletical use; Education › Bible--Homiletical use; Education › Preaching; Preaching
- Resource ID: LLS:CM152CHAPELL
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:38:03Z
Dr. Bryan Chapell is the senior pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois and president emeritus at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, where he has served in leadership capacities since 1985. Dr. Chapell is an internationally renowned preacher, teacher, and speaker, and the author of many books, including Christ-Centered Worship, Each for the Other, Holiness by Grace, Praying Backwards, The Hardest Sermons You’ll Ever Have to Preach, and Christ-Centered Preaching, a preaching textbook now in multiple editions and many languages that has established him as one of the nation’s foremost teachers of homiletics. He and his wife, Kathy, have four children.