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Preaching Christ

Preaching Christ
When you talk about the King, talk as if He is alive, because He is.
He is much more alive than we are.
When I was a new Christian, Christ was much
more alive to me than He is now.
Christ doesn’t change.
He is always alive.
What happened then?
Somehow I began preaching myself rather than preaching Christ.
I used the gifts and knowledge of Christ in me to
show others how alive I was.
Preaching self will drain life from us, but preaching
Christ will fill us with life.
The more we preach Him, the more life will flow through and out of us.
If we preach ourselves, when people reject us it will make us angry.
If we preach Christ, we will not be angry at all when people reject us.
Christ is alive.
Christ is near.
Christ is here.
Rise up our King and take Your place in us.
We abide in You so that others may see You, not us.
And when I came to you, brethren,
I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom,
proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ,
and Him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God
(I Corinthians 2:1-5).

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.
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