“Hebrews— Does it ‘Do Anything’ For You?” by Sinclair Ferguson
Sinclair Ferguson,
A friend — his face wrinkled in a cheerful grin — described an incident that took place at the end of a conference address I had given recently. One hearer, apparently full of the blessings of the passage I had been trying to expound, turned to his neighbor — a stranger to him — and made some positive comments on the experience of the preceding hour: “Wasn’t that great?” — only to receive the somewhat chilling reply, “Didn’t do anything for me.”
I suspect that if one were to do a kind of New Testament Random Letter Association Test (to be known among evangelicals in the future as NTRLAT!), Philippians (“full of joy”), Romans (“full of the doctrines of grace”), and even James (“full of practical counsel”), would fare well. But the mention of The Letter to the Hebrews might evoke a substantial number of “Does nothing for me” responses. . .[continue reading]
