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Defense, Offense, or Preaching

Every believer is entrusted with the Gospel of Jesus the moment he accepted Him as their Lord and Saviour through the Holy Spirit who draws us near to Him and gives His wisdom abundantly. Therefore, it is our responsibility to preach to everyone without any exceptions. However as we try to share Jesus' Good News, we either trying to be caught in emotional defensive and/or offensive conversation rather than victorious salvation of souls. We all fall in this invincible trap that almost unrecognizable and later becomes our habit already.

A habit of defensive and offensive preaching of the Gospel is not the main characteristics of it. It may only lead to sending people away from hearing the Word of God. The good news of Jesus, indeed, exaggerates the image of God such as Kind, Love, Mercy, Grace, Just, and Eternity in heaven.  Paul summarizes it in Titus 3:4-7 says "4 But "when the kindness of God our Saviour and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Saviour. 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life."


On the other hand, some believers preach the Gospel of Jesus that emphasizes the God's wrath, Punishment, Hell, and Eternal Death. Though these are equally important to be known, it is not suppose to come out of our voices at first. Rather, we mixed it along with our exhortations as part of truth and knowledge. Our goal is to bring the good news of Jesus to as many people as possible that we can to reach out everyone. We must be bold in sharing the Gospel of Christ that unleashed the power behind it and that is the Salvation of all humanity for those who believe in Christ. In Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek." 

God bless us all!!!
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