of presenting God’s standards in our sermons.43 In Christ-centered preaching, the rules do not change, but the reasons do. Preachers encourage obedience as a response to grace, rather than as a qualification for it—motivating and enabling application of God’s Word with the redemptive resources of Scripture. Often scholarly discussion of the necessity of Christ-centered exposition terminates in a debate about hermeneutical preferences, but preachers cannot end the
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