Thematic Bible: Should preach


Thematic Bible




We never used flattery, as you know, or found pretexts for making money, as God is our witness. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofCloaksGreed, Believers' Response ToAppealing To GodThe Witness Of GodCovetousnessGreedmotives


For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it. Verse ConceptsMinisters, Way They Should TeachAvoiding Deceitmotives


and my teaching and message were not put in plausible, philosophical language, but they were attended with convincing spiritual power, Verse ConceptsPower Of Holy Spirit, Shown InEnticersPower Through The SpiritThe Power Of The GospelEnticingWise Men In The ChurchLanguageThe power of ChristThe Power Of WordsSpeechpreaching

So when I came to you, brothers, I did not come and tell you the secret purpose of God in superior, philosophical language, Verse ConceptsMinisters, Way They Should TeachPeople VisitingWitness To The GospelFoolishness Of GodExcellenceSpeechpreachingtestimonyego



What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops. Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.




Then Philip began, and starting from this passage, he told him the good news about Jesus. Verse Conceptsevangelism, nature ofevangelism, kinds ofUse Of The Scripturespreaching



I never shrank from telling you anything that was for your good, nor from teaching you in public or at your houses, Verse ConceptsHesitationPreaching, Content OfProperty, HousesTeachersMinisters, Way They Should TeachTeaching In The ChurchUseful ThingsPeople Willing




As surely as God can be relied on, there has been no equivocation about our message to you. The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus, Timothy, and I, you have not found wavering between "Yes" and "No." With him it has always been "Yes,"



Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching the Christ from jealousy and partisanship, but there are others who are doing it out of good-will. These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news. But the others are preaching the Christ not sincerely but for their own ends, imagining that they are making my imprisonment harder to bear.

That was the kind of affection we had for you, which made us ready to share with you not only God's good news but our own lives too, because you were so dear to us. Verse ConceptsMentoringCommitment, to God's peopleLove, For One AnotherUnity, Of God's PeopleValuesMinisters, Should BeMinisters, Way They Should TeachAffection For God's PeopleThe Gospel PreachedLove Exists Between PeopleSharing