(August 21, 2013)
The lesson that dominated my thinking as I read these chapters was the lesson on how we should teach the Gospel. Paul, here, knew his audience well. Instead of preaching what he wanted to preach, he preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the way that his audience needed to hear it. He preached to that audience in particular – crafting his points and his emphasis in the manner best able to meet the needs of the listener rather than preaching what he would preach and demanding the listener adapt to him. We should likewise remember that when we preach the Gospel we don’t preach so that we can preach, we preach so that others can hear, have their hearts softened, and be converted. It serves no purpose to preach the greatest sermon in the world if we could have instead preached a sermon that would have touched our audience’s heart and healed them but we did not.
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