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Preaching vs. Teaching?
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Jeff Lewis | 15 Comments |5 Stars | December 13, 2007 |2355 views
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  Michael Moore  December 13, 2007
Jeff:

The way I have come to understand the difference is as follows:

A preacher reveals the heart of God

A teacher reveals the mind of God
Don Swanger
  Don Swanger  December 13, 2007
You made me do it.  I had to know.

To preach: 

diagello
1. to carry a message through, announce everywhere, through places, through assemblies of men etc.

2 to publish abroad, declare
Translated preach-1, signify-1, declare-1

diagellomai

  1. to think different things with one's self, mingle thought with thought
    1. to ponder, revolve in mind
  2. to converse, discourse with one, argue, discuss
    Translated dispute 6, reason with 2, reason 2, preach unto 1, preach 1, speak 1

euaggelizo 

  1. to bring good news, to announce glad tidings
  2. used in the OT of any kind of good news of the joyful tidings of God's kindness, in particular, of the Messianic blessings
  3. in the NT used especially of the glad tidings of the coming kingdom of God, and of the salvation to be obtained in it through Christ, and of what relates to this salvation
  4. glad tidings are brought to one, one has glad tidings proclaimed to him
  5. to proclaim glad tidings
  6. instruct (men) concerning the things that pertain to Christian salvation
    Translated preach 23, preach the Gospel 22, bring good tidings 2, show glad tidings 2, bring glad tidings 1, declare 1, declare glad tidings 1, miscellaneous 3

katagello

  1. to announce, declare, promulgate, make known
  2. to proclaim publicly, publish
  3. to denounce, report, betray
    Translated preach 10, show 3, declare 2, teach 1, speak 1

kerusso

  1. to be a herald, to officiate as a herald
  2. to proclaim after the manner of a herald
  3. always with the suggestion of formality, gravity and an authority which must be listened to and obeyed
  4. to publish, proclaim openly: something which has been done
  5. used of the public proclamation of the gospel and matters pertaining to it, made by John the Baptist, by Jesus, by the apostles and other Christian teachers
    Translated preach 51, publish 5, proclaim 2, preached + 2, preacher 1

laleo 

  1. to utter a voice or emit a sound
  2. to speak
    1. to use the tongue or the faculty of speech
    2. to utter articulate sounds
  3. to talk
  4. to utter, tell
  5. to use words in order to declare one's mind and disclose one's thoughts
    1. to speak
      Translated speak 244, say 15, tell 12, talk 11, preach 6, utter 4, miscellaneous 3,  speak 1

parrhesiazomai

  1. to use freedom in speaking, be free spoken
    1. to speak freely
  2. to grow confident, have boldness, show assurance, assume a bold bearing
    Translated speak boldly 4, preach boldly 1, be bold 1, wax bold 1, boldly 1, freely 1

proeuaggelizomai 

  1. to announce or promise glad tidings beforehand
    Translated preach before the gospel 1

prokerusso

  1. to announce or proclaim be herald beforehand
  2. to announce beforehand (of the herald himself)
    Translated preach before 1, preach first 1


 
 

 
 




Cheryl
  Cheryl  December 13, 2007

We are all preachers, not necessarily from a pulpit, but preachers of the Word of God and teachers help us to learn the word of God to share with a lost world.

Jeff Lewis
  Jeff Lewis  December 13, 2007
Don-

You invited Mr. Strong's over for dinner huh! Can we get an interpretation of those tongues please?
Don Swanger
  Don Swanger  December 13, 2007
Jeff--Sorry about the length of the last.  I won't add the part for 'to teach' except to say that it is all about instruction and discipling and sound doctrine.  I'm afraid that somewhere we've gotten off track in that teaching is not broadly received today, and in its place, a form of preaching occurs, directed at the church rather than the lost.
Jeff Lewis
  Jeff Lewis  December 13, 2007
Cheryl-

That's right. We all can proclaim the word of God. However, he has given some the job of preaching and teaching full time.

5:17 Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching;

Don Swanger
  Don Swanger  December 13, 2007
I just wanted to find out for me if my opinion was born out by biblical usage.  I would have to agree with your opening statements re what preaching is, and it seems that the New Testament does as well (whew)
Patrick Hazard
  Patrick Hazard  December 13, 2007
As a pastor, I kind of feel that the two should walk together...a preacher who doesn't teach you makes you feel excited to do something but not quite sure what that is.  A teacher seems to force you to realize a decision must be made but provides no external umphh to get it going...

My two cents...excellent post
Jeff Lewis
  Jeff Lewis  December 14, 2007
When I look at the scriptures of Jesus preaching, I have to come preach to other villiages, the spirit of the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor, Go into all the world and preach, how can they believe unless we preach, and Acts 8:4, they went out and preached wherever they were, I see that all the preaching is to the lost?
Don Swanger
  Don Swanger  December 14, 2007
Jeff--The only wrinkle I see in your logic is that when Jesus came, for all intents and purposes, everybody was 'lost'.  I'm not sure the preaching-lost/teaching-believers paradigm is entirely that clean.  If Jesus' message was to preach the good news of the Kingdom, aren't there a lot of believers today who still don't get it?  There's been so little real preaching/teaching on the Kingdom of God that I find a lot of folks who are saved, who are authentically trying to live Spirit led godly lives, but really don't have a much clue as to what they signed up for when it comes to the Kingdom.  Something needs to shake loose.  Now would that be about preaching or teaching or both?
Pastor Tom
  Pastor Tom  December 14, 2007
28:19 Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: 28:20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

I think the problem is we are trying to separate two things which aren't completely separate. it is here in this passage that we find both preaching and teaching. I believe the going and making disciples is indeed the aspect related to preaching, but isn't it also related to teaching. Even today Christians don't understand just how lost we were or how heinous sin is to God. Nevertheless Jesus connects it to teaching. So aren't we forced to acknowledge at least, that there is a point where the two cross over into each other. 

Jeff Lewis
  Jeff Lewis  December 14, 2007
Don and Tom-

I can see how teaching seems to cross over but even in the verse above, win them and then teach them everything I've taught you. Do you see any scripture where preaching is to anyone but the lost? Don, I understand Jesus was preaching to everyone about the kingdom but my main point is that many people talk about style which is fine as compared to audience!
Ian Grant Spong
  Ian Grant Spong  December 17, 2007

PREACH THE GOSPEL & TEACH THE SAINTS

Thank you to the person who outlaid the Greek on this. That is correct. Biblically, preaching is a public proclamation and teaching is for the church. However, often in common use today the two are confused. Some think that a sermon is for preaching and a Bible study is for teaching, but that was not the original meaning. That is OUR modern practice, but not what the Bible means by preach and teach.

Some people think that exciting and dramatic teaching which is just for the church is preaching, and that dull and lifeless spreading of the gospel is teaching. None of the message of God ought to be dull and lifeless, but on the other hand, sometimes excitement is a cover up for a lack of depth and content.

Originally, it was simply preach the gospel (in public, outside of the church) and teach the saints (after baptism, inside of the church). It originally had absolutely nothing to do with the modern practice of "preaching" a sermon.

Jeff Lewis
  Jeff Lewis  December 17, 2007
Grant-

That is what I have seen in scripture myself. thanks for reading my blog and adding your thoughts.