Preach Jesus

Him we preach

Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. – Colossians 1.28

Preaching is an interesting thing to do. It is interesting to be in a situation where week after week you have a chance to teach a group of people.

Sometimes that opportunity can be tempting. There are times when, I admit, I can feel like there is something I need to say. I think anyone who preaches knows the feeling of wanting to go to the pulpit with our own agenda. We can feel like what we have to say and with the platform to say it we can just go ahead and do our thing.

But that is a mistake. We can't go to the pulpit with our own agenda and our own plans - we simply go to the pulpit to preach Jesus.

That means I can’t preach programmes or policies or platforms or politics. I am to preach Jesus and only Jesus.

If we learn to preach Jesus as our Saviour and Jesus as our Lord we can't go wrong. When we preach the word, guess what? We preach Jesus because He is the Word.

Of course we preach the whole counsel of God. But woven through the whole counsel of God is Jesus, Christ in us. Apart from that the Bible is just a good guidebook of life. With Christ it is everything.

Preaching anything else will never draw men to Christ or help them grow to maturity. Only in Jesus do we find the source of all wisdom. Everything else is secondary.

Preach Jesus.