Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

[Sung Psalm: 110] What is the point of preaching? We live in the "information age" where we are overloaded with information and images, sights and sounds. A thousand years ago if there was an earthquake in Japan, you NEVER would have heard about it. But last month, we heard about it within minutes. With all of the information that pours in through television, radio, and internet, why do you sit and listen to a preacher for half an hour on Sunday morning? Later, in Romans 10, Paul will ask "how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?" (Romans 10:14) And so Paul concludes that "faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ." (Romans 10:17) In an "information age" where words and images bombard us constantly, we are too easily distracted. We need the simplicity of the preaching of the Word to draw us back to Jesus. No matter how complicated and high-tech our world may become, we will always need to have a simple messenger st