Preach The Truth In Love

 We are urged to preach or explain the Word of God. We are instructed to preach or proclaim the truth of Scripture, the Word is life and light, it is hope and it is peace,  we preach Christ was crucified. To preach the Word is to preach the truth, and to preach the truth of God's Word is to preach Christ with no compromise.
 Whether convenient or not, in season and out of season, we should be ready and prepared to patiently preach the truth of Scripture, not only with our words but in our lives. Not only with our actions but with our attitudes. Not only in our behaviors but in the hidden motives that rule our thinking.
 To Preach The Truth In Love may require us to patiently and compassionately correct a brother or sister who has been led astray from the Word of truth. It may require us to follow scriptural guidelines to rebuke or challenge a person or ministry, but any admonishment should never be aggressively or deliberately confrontational. Preaching the Word is often to encourage and exhort the Body of Christ as we watch and wait for the any day return of the Lord Jesus for His Church but it should always reflect Christ's gracious character.
 To preach the Word does not mean to teach others what you think it says, what you would like it to say, or what others conclude that it says. It means to preach what God literally says in His Word, in the context in which it is written. 
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction.

Our United Prayer:
Loving Father, we pray that our lives, in words and deeds, may be  sermons to others. Give us, we pray, a correct understanding of the truth of Your Word. Prevent us from adding our own fallible interpretations of Your Word, but may we rightly divide and preach the Word of truth. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.