Beyond the Checklist: Is Your Discipleship Pathway Powered by the Gospel?
The sermon is a topical message on spiritual disciplines, using 1 Peter 2 as a pretext to introduce the church's programmatic 'Discipleship Pathway.' While well-intentioned and organizationally clear, its hermeneutic is weak, replacing exegesis of the text with an explanation of a church program. The message drifts into moralism by focusing heavily on human activity ('taking steps') without sufficiently grounding that activity in the finished work of Christ or the enabling power of the Holy Spirit. A claim of direct personal revelation ('God told me') also raises a significant concern regarding subjective authority.
