A typical testimony given in a typical church today, if given at all, would sound like this When I was five I decide I didn’t want to go to hell so I asked my mother/teacher to read the gospel story to me and I accepted Jesus. Later I raised my hand/walk to the front and signed the card. At youth camp I rededicated my life. Now I am happy all the time and I have many blessings from God, including a suburban house, I have a high paying job, my dream car and two honor roll kids. You know what is completely missing from this? The joyful acknowledgement of the glory of Christ and the frightening awareness of the wretchedness of sin, two important pillars in the Gospel message. Sadly these aspects are completely missing from today’s preaching and few Christians can point to when they became knowledgeable of them. Where in our testimonies were we suddenly overcome with guilt and remorse that we had offend, spit in the face, cursed, crucified, blasphemed, mocked the Holy God Who had created us and was sustaining us with the very breath in our lungs. When did the power and holy of God make you cry out “Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips!”? When did you suddenly realize that it was your sins that drove the nails into the bone and flesh of Jesus’ wrists? When was your spirit burden down by not the punishment of sin but the awfulness of sin in sin itself? When did reading in the Bible where it says “The Lord hates the sinful man”, “Cursed is the man”, or “the man will be cut off” did you realized that it was talking about you? Did you not want to read the Bible in its entirety because it filled you with fear and dread? Can you explain how the law became the schoolmaster driving you toward Christ? When did we strike our chests and cry out “God be merciful to me a sinner!”? Or when did we contrite our hearts like the Prodigal son, saying “Father, I have sinned before Your sight and am not worthy to be called Your child?” When did Christ become glorious, precious, beautiful to us? When were you filled with joy unspeakable at the thought of Christ work of redemption? When was your heart filled with gladness at the very name of Jesus? When were you knocked off your horse and trod in the dust by the presence of the glory of Christ coming into your life? When did you joyfully want to confess Jesus not so your sins would be forgiven but because of His work they had been forgiven? Do we long for the multiplied bread and fishes or do we long for the Multiplier? Are we satisfied in our “free ticket” to heaven or do we continue to long for satisfaction in a relationship with Jesus? When did you realize that Christ was now your Perfect Prophet, Priest and King? When did you stop struggling with working for your salvation and trust totally and completely in Christ Jesus? And now are things always wonderful and happy, like a Disney music video, or are we in a constant struggle to know God more? Are you dieing daily in order to be more satisfied in Jesus and be conformed to His image? Do you clash with the old flash every hour? Are you persecuted because you desire to live godly in Christ Jesus? Are you plagued with nagging doubts about your salvation? And do you overcome them with “rededicating” your life or do you look to the Cross where Christ Jesus once for all accomplished redemption and secured salvation for His people (1 Peter 3:18)? Have you had to given up a good job so you could worship on Sunday, put away certain things because they hindered your walk, or gone without luxury so you could send money to missions? Or in some case have you lost your family, house, and health for not renouncing the truth of the Gospel? Despite all the hardships, many brought by remaining sin, is Jesus still precious to you? Can we truly say this? Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that save a wretch like me I once was lost but now am found was blind but now I see Or do we just singing automatically as we listing to preachers give prep-talks-passing-as-sermons that lack six important Biblical points 1. The Holiness of God 2. The Awfulness of Sin as rebellion against God 3. The Justices of God in punishment of sinners 4. The Glory of Christ in Himself 5. The accomplishment of redemption and securing of salvation by Christ for His people 6. The continual struggle of the Christian life to live holy and as a witness solely for the glory of God | 
