Have you heard of "BibleMesh"?

Some pastors have spent their entire ministry preaching almost exclusively from the New Testament. In fact, some men have admitted that that was their life's goal. One might congratulate them for achieving that and at the same time wonder if achieving "their goal" was a good thing for their congregation.

I am encouraged to learn that The Gospel Coalition's 2011 national conference, running April 12 to 14 in Chicago, features renowned speakers who will model Christ-centered teaching from the Old Testament to help Christians study and teach all of God's Word. To learn more, click HERE.

Dovetailing with the Gospel Coalition's 2011 theme—preaching Christ from the Old Testament—BibleMesh will help your congregation understand how Jesus fits into the Old Testament.

BibleMesh is an interactive Bible learning website that presents the story of God's redemptive acts as a single narrative from Genesis to Revelation. An international team of pastors, scholars, and church leaders presents hundreds of short articles and videos explaining the characters, events, historical contexts, and theology of the Bible. Pastor Tim Keller anchors the course through video introductions to each of the seven eras.

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Below is just a sampling of some of the wonderful resources pastors will find. It is an excerpt from an article by Sinclair Ferguson on Preaching Christ from the Old Testament that is available through BibleMesh.

In particular we must learn to preach Christ from the Old Testament without falling into the old traps of an artificial exegesis.

But how do we legitimately preach the text of the Old Testament as those who stand on this side of Pentecost? What difference does it make to expound Genesis or Psalms as believers in Jesus Christ? Or, to put it in a more graphic way, how can we reconstruct the principles of Jesus’ conversation in Luke 24:25-7 and 45, and learn to follow his example of showing how all the Scriptures point to him so that hearts are ‘strangely warmed’ and begin to burn? In particular, how may we do this without lapsing into what we (sometimes a little too cavalierly) deem to be either patristic allegorising or post-reformation spiritualising? If only we had heard how Jesus did this on the Emmaus Road, in the Upper Room, during the forty days between his resurrection and his ascension, we might grasp the principles by which it is done, so that we too could genuinely preach the text of the Old Testament as Christian preachers and not as rabbis!

Yet we must also preach the Scriptures without denuding them of the genuine historical events they record and the reality of the personal experiences they describe or to which they were originally addressed. How, then, do we preach Christ, and him crucified without leapfrogging over these historical realities as though the Old Testament Scriptures had no real significance for their own historical context?

In discussing the pre-Christ revelation of God as Trinity B B Warfield describes the Old Testament as a richly furnished but dimly lit room. Only when the light is turned on do the contents become clear. That light has been switched on in Christ and in the New Testament’s testimony to him. Now the triune personal being of God becomes clear. To read the Old Testament with the light switched off would be to deny the historical reality of our own context. On the other hand, we would be denying the historical reality of the text and its context if we were to read and preach it as though that same light had already been switched on within its own pages. Thus our task as Christian preachers must be to take account of both. Fulfilling that task drives us back into the basic hermeneutical question for the Christian exegete: How do we relate the Old Testament to the New Testament? The longer we labour in ministry, the more we ask that question. The more we know about the answer to it, the more we realise there is so much more left to explore. It is a life long pursuit.