Invest in Faithful Preaching

A Short Word, August 2025

Cultural Christianity can be a challenge in ministry. Josh Docksteader, a pastor at Port City Church in Bedford, Nova Scotia, says there’s “a real culture of ‘I must be saved, because I grew up going to church or had some kind of experience with church at some point.’” And yet, over the past few years, Josh has seen people’s complacency “shaken up” by covid as well as political and economic upheaval. It has shown “where faith actually lies.”

That creates an opportunity, and Josh sees better preaching as the solution. “Our people need strong investment into knowing the scriptures and having them preached faithfully.”  Josh was helped in his preaching by attending Workshops in Seattle and Toronto, so he helped bring a Workshop to Nova Scotia last month. At it, he was challenged to help people pursue real relationship with God by preaching the depth of the text with “clarity and simplicity.”

Josh hopes to see expositional preaching flow across Atlantic Canada, so that people are drawn out of mere cultural Christianity and closer to God. To this end, please pray the Lord raises up more faithful preachers.

In Christ,
Darrell Young
Executive Director of CST Canada