 Here's the deadly problem with modern preaching. Though many in Western culture would identify themselves as Christian, they've adopted something dubbed as moralistic therapeutic deism. It's the idea that we should just be good people and that we should pursue our own wants and desires, effectively making us little gods. Now that might sound outlandish or extreme, but really this is what's at the root of much of the most popular Christian teaching online today. Sermons are framed as TED talks. Three ways that you can have a better relationship. Three principles that will help you find the good life that God has for you. I'm at the center of this kind of teaching. God acts as my divine butler. But here's the truth, aspects of biblical teaching can be tough to take, judgment, wrath, sin, and I could go on. But these are topics that many preachers won't touch on for fear they'll lose their audience. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?