Summary

Pride is the sin behind all others and the Christian life is the call to continually deal with our pride. However we often fail to se how we carry our pride even into our witness for the Gospel. In the first of our two sermons in the series on “dysfunctional witness” we will look at prideful and arrogant postures in the way we share the Gospel and how when we take such postures, we undermine the very credibility of our personal witness and the Gospel. Some aspects of this are “project evangelism” where we make certain individuals into a project rather than a mutually reciprocal relationship and “apocalyptic evangelism” that has an inherent judgmental tone. In Luke 9:46-56 we rather see a contrast between the judgmental posture of the apostles and the redeeming posture of Christ.

About the Speaker

Pastor Todd Murphy | Lead Pastor

Todd came to the faith at the age of 19 after growing up in the skateboarding indie-punk culture of the 80’s. He lives with his beautiful wife Christine and six healthy boys, Judah, Anson, Keegan, Aiden, Cailan, and Rowan in a suburb of Providence. Todd is an accomplished Bible teacher with an BA in Biblical studies and MA in Hebrew Bible studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has also taught biblical studies for the department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University, and is the author of the Pocket Dictionary for the Study of Biblical Hebrew (InterVarsity Press, 2003). When not writing, preaching or teaching, he can often be found playing Xbox with his sons or surfing with Judah. Once in a while you might even still catch him skateboarding.