Immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.
Acts 9:20

God has ordained preaching as the means through which he communicates the Gospel to people He will save.

1 Corinthians 1:21-23 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified…

Granted, preaching by itself saves no one. The Holy Spirit saves people by “regenerating” them. But He does that as they hear the Word of God preached.

Sadly, any who are not “preachers” in the formal sense think this has nothing to do with them. Not so! “Preaching” the Gospel is the task of all believers. That doesn’t mean all believers are called to prepare sermons to be preached from a pulpit to an assembly of people. The preaching we are all called to simply means “proclaim,” or even more simply, “speak.”

All we who have been saved by God’s grace, received through faith in Christ Jesus, are called to “talk about Jesus.” This “talking” about Jesus is not only the task of all believers, it ought to be the privilege and joy of all believers. Why?

If we are saved, we should want to talk about the One who loves us so.
If we are saved we should want our unbelieving family and friends (as well as anyone else with whom we come in contact with) to know the Lord as well—shouldn’t we?

So why do we find it so difficult to “talk abut Jesus? Next time…