What Are You Doing Here?

[Sung Psalm: 45]

I grew up in a church that did very well at bible memorization, but we never really saw how the scriptures all fit together. And so from time to time I like to preach “catechetical” sermons, drawing together the teaching of the scripture on particular topics in order to set forth the basic doctrines of the Bible.

After all, the potential drawback to the practice of preaching only through books of the Bible is that there are some doctrines that only become clear as you see the connection between several different passages of scripture. I try to show those connections as I preach through books, but a catechetical series allows us to see these connections more clearly.

The first question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism is easily the best known: What is the chief end of man?