Analogy

Everything in Relation to Him

traditional Christ-centered preaching insight

Every doctrine, every practice, every ethical demand eventually has to be related to Jesus Christ or it becomes something less than Christian. He is not one topic among many. He is the center that gives the other topics their meaning. When He is displaced, even good things begin to distort.

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Useful when recentering a talk or series that has drifted into secondary matters.

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