A Thought on Teaching

"Someone decided several years ago that the word propitiation is too technical and not user-friendly enough for contemporary Christians, so preachers stopped explaining the principle of propitiation. Now that the idea of propitiation is under attack, we have a generation of leaders who don't remember what it meant or why it's important to defend." - Phil Johnson at his blog.

Phil Johnson's words reminded me how important it is to teach "the whole counsel of God." If someone does not know what a certain theological term means, as pastors, we ought to teach them instead of doing our sheep the disfavor of skipping the concept because of their inability to grasp such truth at the moment. And those who are not teachers but students must labor through the difficulties so that they will be able to understand the rich doctrines of Scripture. May God raise up a generation that will both teach and study the great truths of Scripture.