Proclaimer's Responsibility

Those who prophesy are to interpret divine revelation according to the strength, clearness, fervor and qualities of faith bestowed upon them by the Holy Spirit of Christ. The preacher’s conviction on how and when to preach and teach God’s Word comes from their relationship with Christ. The doctrine of the preacher, what he believes, and the truths of the message proclaimed must be in proportion to the doctrine of faith as revealed in both the Old and New Testament. (Word Studies in the New Testament; Meyer; Matthew Henry Commentary; The Expositors Bible Commentary)

When a man or women of God wants to develop their gift to preach the Word of God they may look to God’s Word and find solid instructions. Hebrews 13:7 says, “Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.” Every true preacher of the Word of God has enjoyed the Lord bringing someone into their lives whom have been tested by trials, studied to show themselves faithful to preach the whole counsel of God’s Word and withstood the test of time. These are Christians who God wants to use to teach them how to proclaim truth.

God changes a man’s spiritual heart, but he uses the personality He originally gave him. God does not want everyone to preach and teach the same and use the same methods. There are prophets like Pastor David Wilkerson, communicators like Ken Davis and there are great teachers like Dr David Jeremiah. These great proclaimers of truth were not all trained by the same type of ministry.

Proclaimers who want to enjoy proclaiming truth and be seen faithful in their calling will watch, listen and prayerfully consider who Christ wants them to learn from. The last thing a preacher would want to do is take a poll from the congregation and find out who their favorite TV preacher or author is. Any preacher who would do that will be torn to bits, confused, frustrated and out of the ministry in no time.

I learned in the horse training business that you find horsemen who are like minded, have the same abilities and same convictions, then make time to learn from each other. I used to go to training clinics, watch all the trainers I could and try to apply everything I saw from them. My horses, the people exposed to our lives and I were all miserable. The best thing I did was to find trainers who had the same abilities and convictions as I did and we learned from each other. Just as there are foundations in the horse business, there are truths to go by in God’s Word. Preachers use these truths to find their foundation in the preaching and teaching of God’s Word.

At this time in ministry to Christ I cannot tell you of all the different ways of proclaiming the truths of God’s Word, but I can tell you of my Biblical conviction on what the Lord has led me to do over the last 20+ years.

The convictions I have are the same convictions the Lord has laid upon great proclaimers of truth such as pastors and teachers, David Wilkerson, Dr. John MacArthur, Rick Warren, and Dr. David Jeremiah.