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PREACHING? OLD SCHOOL!

Preaching sounds old school yet it still is one of the primary ways to communicate what God wants to say to His children and the rest of the world.

It (preaching) is a privilege wrapped up with a HUGE (ALL CAPS) responsibility.

Charles H. Spurgeon puts it this way…

“I have preached the gospel now these 30 years and more, and … often, in coming down to this pulpit, have I felt my knees knock together, not that I am afraid of anyone of my hearers, but I am thinking of that account which I must render to God, whether I speak his Word faithfully or not.”

Powerful words from a powerful preacher.

The motive for preaching?  You can preach for 2 reasons.  Either because ‘you have to’ or because ‘you have to’.

Listen to what Mark Batterson has to say about this…

The first “have to” is because you are on the schedule. The second “have to” is because you have fire shut up in your bones, you have a word from the Lord, you have something conceived by the Holy Spirit that you cannot keep inside. Nothing is worse that the first “have to.” Nothing is greater than the second “have to.”


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Paolo Punzalan

Husband, father, pastor and most importantly, Christ follower.

3 responses to “PREACHING? OLD SCHOOL!”

  1. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    1 Corinthians 9:16 Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

    im waiting for the day when everynation can train up women preachers =]

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  2. Paolo Punzalan Avatar
    Paolo Punzalan

    We have Mary Malinao who is now in Dubai as a missionary. She’s a powerful preacher.

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  3. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    she is? that’s awesome. i know there are a couple of EN women who teach (mary malinao and lynette lewis)… sometimes it’s just harder to break through in ministry if you’re a woman… it’s sad but it is a reality that the church in general (not just EN) faces.

    =] i remember the first day i saw her (mary) at victory about 9 years ago. she wasn’t preaching… she was praying… i was like WOW – God i want to be like that! (i had NO IDEA what i was asking for) HAHAHA! since then God has taken me into this beautiful journey in transforming my heart into an intercessor who loves to pray.

    before the doing….comes the being. it’s been 8 years since i’ve held on to this dream of preaching and writing books. the dream is unfolding… slowly but surely =)

    i seriously cannot wait to come back to the philippines one day and share God’s news of hope & redemption to women who are single mothers, who have been abused, who need to be set free from addictions. my heart burns for that.

    “I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!”

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