Cross-Eyed Application: Equipping Preachers to Urge Faith-Based, Text-driven Obedience
By Jeffrey E. Carroll and Randal E. Pelton
While we are confident that whatever God has said is relevant, the pastor’s ever-present danger is rendering null and void the gift of God’s relevant revelation through misguided application. When we speak of application, we are referring to any time in the sermon when we call for a response of faith-rooted obedience to the theological meaning of the text.
In Haddon Robinson’s article “The Heresy of Application” (2005. pp. 306-311), he suggests that errors are most...
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