Locating the Real Problem and the Real Solution

Al Mohler:

Most Americans believe that their major problem is something that has happened to them, and that their solution is to be found within. In other words, they believe that they have an alien problem that is to be resolved with an inner solution.

What they gospel says, however, is that we have an inner problem that demands an alien solution—a righteousness that is not our own.

—R. Albert Mohler Jr., “Preaching with the Culture in View,” in Preaching the Cross, Together for the Gospel (Wheaton, IL: Crossway 2007), p. 81.

HT: Dane Ortlund