I came across a post by Dr. David Murray today commenting on some of the reasons why there is so little preaching from the Old Testament these days. He gives the following 8 reasons:
1) Liberalism’s attack on the Old Testament.
2)Ignorance of the Old Testament.
3) Perceived Irrelevance of the Old Testament.
4) Dispensationalism’s unintentional relegation of the Old Testament to a secondary role in the life of the New Testament Church.
5) Bad examples of Old Testament preaching lead us to shy away from Old Testament preaching.
6) Good models of Old Testament preaching are hard to come by.
7) Laziness on the part of the preacher/teacher. (Let’s be honest… Leviticus is hard to preach.)
8) Prevalence of Christ-less preaching from the Old Testament.
You can read the whole article here http://headhearthand.posterous.com/where-did-the-old-testament-go.
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