“2- Preach the word; be instant
in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering 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.” (II Timothy 4:1-8 KJV)
The work of the minister of the gospel
is unique and very special in the sight of God. It may not be as pleasing to
others who have no hope. But Christians should know and understand that
witnessing as commonly known as soul winning or evangelism was ordained and was
entrusted to every believer of the Lord Jesus Christ. We can tell the importance
of spreading the good news of salvation by the Lord’s command when He gave us
the great commission to “Go”. (Matthew 28:18-20).
But the Apostle Paul has a warning for
us Christians in (I Corinthians 9:16- 18 KJV) “For though I preach the gospel,
I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me,
if I preach not the gospel! 17- For if I do this thing willingly, I have a
reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto
me. 18- What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may
make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the
gospel. Paul’s warning was “woe unto him who preach not the gospel.”
If you are a Christian, you are Christ’s
minister and as a minister of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are
required to be faithful in the business of preaching the gospel.
