The Two-Level Confrontation in Preaching

I am confronted mainly in this church with the task of seeing how this two-level confrontation works itself out in preaching. I feel the need to lift up a great God and to warn you against the encroachments of secular values, assumptions and expectations that just breathe in without any thought into your brain and into your heart. The air you breathe at the office all day long is another air than what blows from the Kingdom of Heaven. If enough people over enough years of our life as a church would begin to shape their lives around the all-pervasive reality of a glorious sovereign God, a garden of healing could grow up. That's not simple and not individualistic. There isn't the