If you’ve preached and pastored for any length of time you’ll know the truth of MacArthur’s words when he said, “Soft preaching makes for hard people” (“The Sinner Neither Able Nor Willing”). Even if you haven’t preached, think about how that has been true for your own soul. Gospel preaching is not soft preaching. The gospel is divisive, which is another reason why we have to be cautious not to be culturally or personally insulting when preaching the gospel. The gospel will be offensive. It splits humanity into two groups - those who believe and receive eternal life and those who don’t. Jesus himself knew that his teaching did exactly that. Some people received the kingdom of heaven and some didn’t when Jesus “told them many things in parables” (Matt. 13:3, 10-17, 34-35).

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