“Preach the Word …” says Paul in this charge to Timothy. Hugh Thomsen Kerr put the emphasis correctly: We are...

• not to preach sociology, but salvation;
• not economics, but evangelism;
• not reform, but redemption;
• not culture, but conversion;
• not progress, but pardon;
• not a new social order, but a new birth;
• not revolution, but regeneration;
• not renovation, but revival;
• not resuscitation, but resurrection;
• not a new organization, but a new creation;
• not democracy, but the Gospel;
• not civilization, but Christ;
• we are ambassadors, not diplomats.