Essential Contents Of the Preaching.

Chinese cuisine is undesirable to many because of its unhealthy ingredients.

Even though they raise threat to healthy eating they add taste to that food.

Regardless of health issues people around the globe grab Chinese food.

Similarly, unhealthy contents in the preaching made the gospel tasteful but deathly. We have many thousands of seminaries and millions of preachers.

Preachers are classified in to different groups.

Each of them claims that he preaches the true gospel.

Noted apostle Rev.Manu P Cherian Canada asked me which is the true gospel.

Before, attempting to answer his question I want to make sure that you believe in the innerancy of the Bible, as well as, its inspiration.

Do you accept Paul’s letters as important as Jesus’ teachings?

Do you accept the life of Paul as true followable model of any Christian leader?

If you find any difficulty in answering these questions neither you can preach a sermon according to New Testament standards nor lead a life prescribed by New Testament writers.

What should be the contents of a Christian Preaching?

We have five sermons of Peter and seven sermons of Paul with us.

Apart these 12 we can have a lengthy sermon of Stephen also. First sermon after the resurrection of Jesus was done by Jesus himself. It was on the road towards Emmaus.

We can learn valuable lessons from these fourteen sermons.

I studied these sermons and found seven essential contents in the gospel preaching.

1 Presenting Jesus as Christ.

Jesus did this by quoting from all Old Testament books. Luke 24.

2 Preach the resurrection of Christ and resurrection of the dead.

3 Point out the eternal Judgement.

4 Preach the need of having self control

This may be an offence to modern day grace preachers.

But Paul preached self control to Felix. Acts

5 Preach the righteousness of God.

Many modern day preachers prefer to preach the love of God. They also preach the grace of God but conveniently omit these essential factors.

6 Needlessness of God.

If God is in need in any way, He can no longer be God.

Paul clearly declares this in his sermon to the people of Ethens. Acts 17.

Many of today’s worship leaders encourage people to make more sound by saying that God is a worship seeker. Actually God doesn’t need any ministry from men.

7 Preach repentance and lead people to baptism.

Some people say that repentance was preached only for people who were present in the day of Pentecost. But Paul presented repentance as a commandment of God, not as a suggestion of men. Acts