I Get What I Preach For
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Pastor Coon
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When I preach salvation, people get saved and want others to get saved.
What you talk about is what people are going to respond to.
This is not about manipulation through communication.
So, friends, what are you preaching for? What are you communicating for?
I saw this on a website that I was visiting for some church marketing information and it caught my fancy, so I modified it to a Baptist Pastor's Biblical viewpoint:
When I preach salvation, people get saved and want others to get saved.
When I preach about loving Jesus, people desire to demonstrate the love from Jesus.
When I preach about God's blessings, people look to be blessed and be a blessing.
When I preach about the second coming, people get ready and get excited.
When I preach about spiritual and physical healing, people anticipate being cured.
When I preach hope, people are more hopeful no matter what life brings.
When I preach about giving, people give more and more willingly give.
What you talk about is what people are going to respond to.
In other words, I get what I preach for.
This is not about manipulation through communication.
This is about transformation through communication.
So, friends, what are you preaching for? What are you communicating for?
2 Timothy 4:1-4
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
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