Is Just Me?
 

Is just me? I don't like preaching that makes me feel good, but I love preaching that makes me ask "Brother what must I do" I want preaching that cuts my heart, convicts me of my sin and breaks me.

Re: Is Just Me?
 

amen.

Re: Is Just Me?
 

I like and need both at various times in everyday living.

Re: Is Just Me?
 

I like a balance of both. However, personally, I'm more moved, and motivated when I hear of God's grace and how a perfect God moves in the lives of and uses imperfect people. Most likely because I'm terribly imperfect.

Re: Is Just Me?
 

reprove, rebuke, exhort. 2 out of 3 things listed can be seen as "negative "

Re: Is Just Me?
 

Very true. My first Pastor used to reprove, rebuke, and exhort to holiness. Sometimes it was fearsome. He'd come down so hard on sin, for about 20 minutes you'd swear you could smell the sulfur of Hell itself. But he seemed to always have the Good News ready too. If you were struggling with sin, he preached the value of confession and the blood of Jesus,

1 John 1:7-9 King James Version (KJV)
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He'd say, "So, you just come up here to this altar, have a talk with Jesus. Confess it and make it right. God already knows you done it. Get yourself out into the light so we can get this sin under the blood! He'll cleanse you and make you white as snow!"

So, what often seemed like a very negative rebuke pointed you to the cross where you could find forgiveness.

So, in the end, it was positive.

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Confess it, "one to another" or confess it to God in secret prayer.

Honestly, in my life, I can tell you plainly that it was the confessing of my pervasive failures one to another, and the genuine fellowship that followed-- the Lord used these means to bring about significant change in my life.

Re: Is Just Me?
 

Ditto me on this answer.

Re: Is Just Me?
 

So, you don't like prosperity preaching?