ingredients for our own future ministry. I had taken several courses with Richard Lovelace that had revealed the difference between moralistic religiosity (even of a doctrinally sound, biblical sort) and gospel-renewal. Now, in Clowney, I realized I had discovered the application of this distinction to preaching. Moralistic sermons worked only on the will, but Christ-centered preaching clarified the gospel and changed the heart. However, as most disciples of Ed Clowney have learned, the execution
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