Preaching and Teaching is a Gift with Responsibility
13 September 2024
23rd Week
Ordinary Time
Friday
1 Cor 9:16-27
Preaching and Teaching is
a Gift with Responsibility.
“For
when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to
preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! If I preach
voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging
the trust committed to me. What then is my reward? Just
this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so
not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel" (1 Cor 9:16-18).
While preaching is a gift
and a duty for those who are called. It involves the responsibility to live
what one preaches and preach those things one practices. Preaching is one
aspect of life, but it has to be integrated with life. Preachers and teachers
should not preach and teach what is impossible but that could be lived and make
it possible to live with the Grace of God and human effort. If not preaching is
a useless exercise one who preaches and for those it is preached.
Do we make an effort to
practice what we preach to the people?
Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb
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