13 Sep 2024
4 CommentsThe Joy of Preaching the Good News
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If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe betide me if I do not proclaim the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.
For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I might by any means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it. Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable garland, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Val
14 September 2024 @ 1:27 am
Fr. Scott, I feel blessed to be one of your students today. Thank you.
Peggy
14 September 2024 @ 1:27 am
Thank you Fr. Scott.
Anonymous
15 September 2024 @ 12:07 am
It is a joy to be part of such joyful and joy filled Good News. Thanks
Scott Steinkerchner, O.P.
15 September 2024 @ 3:17 am
Thank you all, and I believe that this joy is also familiar to you all as well. We sometimes need to remind ourselves of it.