Author John MacArthur writes, “We live in a church culture that downplays sound biblical teaching -- a culture that shies away from preaching doctrine, biblical confrontation, and unashamed gospel proclamation...

Instead of a church that engages the world with God's truth while calling sinners to repentance in Christ, we have a church that seems more concerned with avoiding friction and just blending in. Attention-grabbing skits and media presentations are supplanting sermons. Recovery programs and support groups are replacing Bible study. In short, churches today are abandoning the life-changing Word of God for substitutes that can neither convert unbelief nor feed the flock.”

The apostle Paul writes, "...It pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe" (1 Cor. 1:18). Man cannot know the mind of God without the revelation or word of God (1 Corinthians 2:10-13). We must never lose the centrality of Scripture in changing lives. We deny one of our primary missions in the world when we do not hold up the word of God for everyone to hear.