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# The temptation of relevance
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200794the-temptation-of-relevance-html/
- Published: 2007-09-04T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:33.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Relevance, theocentric, #DashHouseCom, #wp

In [*Preaching to Convince*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0917463110/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com), Ben Patterson speaks of five deadly temptations in the ministry, the last of which is to try to "make Scripture relevant" in our preaching:

> This particular temptation used to be the sole province of the liberal theological tradition. But in the past few years, it has gained a number of victims in the evangelical community…The sin courted in this temptation is the presumption that it is the Bible that is dead and we who are alive…

> Is the Bible relevant? Dr. Bernard Ramm once remarked, "There is nothing more relevant than the truth." The longer I preach, the more convinced I become that the best thing I can do is simply get out of Scripture's way.

(quoted in Michael F. Ross's [*Preaching for Revitalization*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1845501233/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com))