Too often we think of preachers as the guy who stands on a stage on Sunday morning delivering a message to the folks sitting in the chairs. But yesterday Brad told us that the Gospel preaches to us and through us. When we have been impacted by the gospel of Jesus Christ, we MUST tell someone the good news of salvation. That makes us all preachers.
When the great persecution of the early church began after the stoning of Stephen, everyone scattered EXCEPT the apostles (the preachers). But we are told in Acts 8:4 that those who were scattered went about preaching the word. Hmm...preaching.
Part of the misconception of the Church today is that we have no responsibility to preach when we are scattered out of the Sunday morning church setting to the world of work or family or neighborhoods or wherever we might be. We have a tendency to think preaching is only for Sunday and only for the guy on stage.
Help me to speak - preach - boldly the word, the salvation of Jesus, to those with whom I come into contact.
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