Tyler King A ny time I read a passage in 2 Timothy, I am reminded of how intimate of a letter it is. This is the last letter penned by Paul that we have before he was shipped off to Rome where he met his death. In this last letter, Paul gave his son in the faith, Timothy, several pieces of advice and words of encouragement. Among these final instructions, we come across chapter 4 and verse 2 where Paul instructs Timothy to do five actions (preach, be ready, reprove, rebuke, and exhort) . The first of the imperatives that Paul gives is “preach the word.” In an effort to better digest that command, it’d be good to break that down into the two words of “preach” and “word.” There is a verb (preach) and a noun/subject (the word) involved with this particular imperative. Before you discount this passage by saying, “well, I’m not a preacher so I can tune this one out,” unfortunately, that kind of thinking doesn’t work in totality. While Timothy was most certainly the...