PREACHING
(Gr.: “kerygma”). It is used in the NT of “an announcement”, or “a making known”, without necessarily carrying the idea of formal preaching as the word is understood today.
When the Church in Jerusalem suffered persecution, everyone, except the apostles, scattered and went everywhere “proclaiming the gospel” (Acts 8:14).
In Ecclesiastes, Solomon calls himself “the preacher” (Eccl. 1:1; see ECCLESIASTES). Of Noah it is stated that he was “a preacher of righteousness” (2 Pet. 2:5). Paul was appointed as a preacher (herald) (1 Tim. 2:7; 2 Tim. 1:11; cf. 1 Cor. 9:27).
God was “pleased to save believers through the foolishness of preaching” (1 Cor. 1:21). God uses preaching, the announcement of the good news, to make known his love and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
«How will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone to preach to them?… How beautiful are the feet of those who announce peace, of those who announce good news! (Rom. 10:14-15).
The importance of preaching is underlined by the following words: “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing comes from the word of God” (Rom. 10:17).
The central object of Christian preaching or proclamation is the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, God manifested in the flesh, died for our sins, and resurrected for our justification (John 1:1, 14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Rom. 4:25), and that he will return to judge the world with justice (Acts 17:31; 24:25); Closely related to this proclamation is the instruction given to the
Christian of the promise of his gathering to Christ (John 14:1-4; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; Rev. 22:20), which constitutes the present hope of the Christian and his motive to please the great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself to rescue us and purify us (Tit. 2:11-14). Concerning preaching “to spirits in prison”