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# Preaching the Gospel in an age of self-help
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200788preaching-the-gospel-in-an-age-of-self-help-html/
- Published: 2007-08-08T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:36.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Gospel-Centered Preaching, theocentric, #DashHouseCom, #wp

From [GospelDrivenLife](http://mrlauterbach.typepad.com/gospeldrivenlife/2007/08/living-in-the-g.html?ref=dashhouse.com):

> Any accommodation of the Gospel to self-help is a denial of the Gospel. The Gospel is humbling because it treats us as helpless and no one likes that ('What do you think I am, an invalid? I can handle it without your help.') And when I tell people I am teaching them Christianity and all I am doing is putting Jesus name on some self-help schemes, I am preaching another Gospel.

> So, what about all the practical? You do have to DO something, don't you?

> Well, yes, but there is a world of difference between dependent, humble application of the Gospel to life and self-sufficient, self-exalting self-help. If people leave my preaching confident in the rules and principles I have given them, I have preached a false Gospel. If they leave the room confident in the faithful grace and power of the Savior to work in them as they seek to obey — I have preached the Gospel.

[via](http://transformingsermons.blogspot.com/2007/08/stop-trying-to-improve.html?ref=dashhouse.com)