From the Elder's Pen "The Kind Of Preaching Needed In Every Generation" 5/26/02 Past/Future Articles

First, we need to preach the gospel, because the gospel is “the power of God unto salvation” (Rom. 1:16).  The gospel means “good news.”  It is the good news of the birth and life of Jesus and what His death on the cross means to us, that through the shedding of His blood, salvation through obedience to His Word, is brought near to us.  We need, as every generation needs, the kind of preaching the apostle Paul instructed the young preacher Timothy to do, ”Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine” (II Tim. 4:2).  This means that all false doctrine must be exposed and rebuked.  Our late brother Marshall Keeble said, “preach it if it hurts and preach it if it don’t hurt.”  God is no respecter of person and neither should gospel preachers be.  We need BIBLE preaching and not a watered-down reasonably facsimile thereof.