The pulpit is not a place of proving our self worth , boasting or trying to showcase our worth to others or a place to exhbit our relevance.

But a place to preach hope , a place to tell others about the saving grace of God and his plan for salvation to all mankind. A place to rightly teach and exhort.

A pulpit is not a place to show why our faith is superior or more important than other faiths. But a place to tell others about Christ's love and spreading that love in deeds. As the word of God leads us.

Recently, I was invited to one Anniversary, and the preacher came talking about His travel experience from Nigeria to Europe, to Canada and how someone bought new car for him with a little touch of bible verses and how people who are looking for visa , job opportunity, business contract, pregnancy, should come out and receive Prophetic words .

Now , that's not the message of salvation. That was performance not preaching. Many people use the pulpit to perform and display their wealth, their consecration, their miracles but the pulpit is meant to preach Jesus Christ and Him alone !

The pulpit is not a stage for performance. It is a sacred place for proclaiming God’s truth. Those who stand behind it must do so with reverence, humility, and the fear of the Lord.

The pulpit is meant to preach Christ and Him crucified. The faithful church must not settle for anything less than this crucial message.

Paul wrote a letter to the Corinthians church about His message to them 

1st Corinthians 2:1-2

And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 

NOTE: 

"FOR I RESOLVED TO KNOW NOTHING WHILE I WAS WITH YOU EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED ! 

Paul did many miracles in other cities , but he wasn't talking about His miracles for relevance! He never for once talk about the healing that God wrought through him to the Corinthians church, he was busy PREACHING Christ Jesus .

Many of you ministers of God , pastors , prophets , you're too full of yourself . You go to pulpit to perform and display your gifts , your miracles with a touch of Jesus Christ. 

You mount on pulpit to tell us how you fast for 100 days and pray for 500hours , how you open the blind eyes Akure and the lame walk in Abuja , you just want to present yourself to others like you have arrived , you carry power but the gospel is simple. Preach Christ and him crucified . 

 Paul commands Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:1–2: “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.” 

This is related to the command of Christ Himself in Mark 16:15–16: “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.” 

Paul describes his and his colleagues work of preaching in 1 Corinthians 1:22–23 “For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles…” 

The Apostle Peter writes to the church in Asia Minor in 1 Peter 1:23–25 “… since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for ‘All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.’ And this word is the good news that was preached to you.”

So we see three basic principles for preaching in the Scriptures: (1) Preach the Word; (2) Preach the gospel; (3) Preach Christ.

In II Timothy 3:10-17, Paul sets out two basic aspects to the function of the Scriptures. (1) The Scriptures led Timothy and should lead others to find salvation in Christ (II Tim. 3:15). (2) The Scriptures teach you how to live in that salvation, they are profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness (II Tim. 3:16).

So here’s how it works. When you preach the Word, the Holy Scriptures, Jesus says that they will point to Him (Jn. 5:39). He is the gospel or at least the gospel is made known in Him (Mark. 1:1). So if you are preaching the Word rightly, then you are preaching of Christ and the gospel (Lk. 24:27). 

May God help us to preach Christ Gospel 

IMOLEDAYO