Doctrinal Preaching

Sound doctrine (in preaching) doesn’t guarantee better programs or more efficient management structures or an answer to the age-old problem of which came first—the bigger sanctuary or the bigger parking lot. If it’s answers to questions like these you want, you’re going to have to look elsewhere. Doctrine isn’t very useful in a ministry of crowd management. But if you want practical help in promoting godliness in your church, fostering love and unity, making disciples, and growing in grace, there’s nothing more practical than sound theology. Could it be that some of us in ministry have lost our interest in sound theology because we’re not really doing Christian ministry anymore? (Michael Lawrence, "Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church," 94).