Passage: 2 Timothy 4:1–4

The preaching of God’s Word takes a bad rap these days. Many people prefer it would be shorter, more entertaining, and certainly more relevant to their life. We preach mainly because it is God’s method of delivering His message to the church. When preachers are faithful in opening the Word of God and explaining the book by telling what it has to say about the lives of the listeners, the words that they lay out for the listeners are exactly what God has to say.