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condition that contemporary believers share with those for or by whom the text was written that requires the grace of the passage to manifest God's glory in his people." Identifying the FCF enables the preacher proclaim how God is providing solution to some aspect of humanity's fallen condition that we cannot provide for ourselves. This aspect of grace will come to greatest manifestation in the ministry of Jesus. His coming was predicted after humanity's fall at
Scripture's opening (Genesis 3:15) and the necessity of his ministry is the context of all Scripture's content. Thus, all Scripture is shown to be pointing away from human solutions and toward the divine redemption that is centered in Christ. Chapell's approach is to raise the FCF in the sermon's introduction so that the body of the sermon shows how God is addressing the FCF, making plain its redemptive purpose.
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America's Candidate Assessment Committee; multiple judiciary panels of the General Assembly; the Committee on Constitutional Business (multiple terms); the Cooperative Ministries Committee; the Steering Committee for Worship Practices of PCA Church Plants; the Overtures Committee of the General Assembly (serving multiple terms and as Chairman in 2016); the Strategic Planning Committee (2000-2006 and 2008-2013, serving as Chairman); the Standing Judicial Commission (multiple terms); the Revision Committee of the Rules of Assembly Operations; and, the Steering Committee of the Presbyterian Pastors Leadership Network. Chapell was elected Moderator of the General Assembly in 2014, and has been asked to be a special session speaker for the General Assembly more than a dozen times. He has also served as interim Pastor at multiple churches in their times of transition.
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Seminary. In addition, he has served multiple terms as Adjunct Professor of Preaching at Covenant Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, Western Theological Seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Heritage Theological Seminary; and, Christ College, Australia. He has provided individual lectureships in scores of additional theological institutions and preached sermons in hundreds of churches across the world. In 2023, Chapell preached at the Hong Kong Bible Conference to an audience of over 1.1 million Chinese.
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available seminary-level preaching courses for pastors and those in pastoral training around the world (in multiple languages) with an emphasis on preparing expository messages true to the redemptive message pervading all
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In his roles as a preacher, teacher, and author, Bryan
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This redemptive approach moves Christian preaching away from bare moralistic or legalistic instruction that would supposedly qualify us for God, and makes Christian faithfulness a thankful response to God's grace that has been made plain by addressing the FCF in every biblical passage. In this way,
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In this now-standard homiletics text, Chapell explains how the grace of God that culminates in the ministry of Jesus Christ pervades all of Scripture. Chapell helps preachers see this grace by showing how individual, biblical texts invariably have a "Fallen Condition Focus" (FCF): "the mutual human
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the FCF not only provides a redemptive context for the Bible's instruction, but also provides the loving motivation and joyful enablement that are the true power of Christian living that glorifies God. The redemptive perspective of
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