Every time we preach, we need to create dissonance in the minds of our hearers. We need to declare our wretchedness, our sin, and our powerlessness, and we need to admit frankly that we can’t solve this problem. And then we proclaim the gospel. We show our people how God Himself did what they were wholly unable to do. We tell them that the problem of sin was only solved when the sinless Son of God died on the cross as a substitute for His people.
