Preaching and the Human Condition: Loving God, Self, & Others

Sermons often suffer from a lack of adequate analysis and presentation of the human condition.

In the wake of Enlightenment emphasis on the individual and confidence in human progress/ability, sermons often suffer from a lack of adequate analysis and presentation of the human condition. The result is that preachers either 1. (intentionally or unintentionally) offer self-help type messages or 2. fail to help hearers experience the breadth of the good news of Jesus Christ because the