One of my fellow
elders teaches at a local seminary. He sometimes invites me to speak to
his students from a pastor's perspective about sermon preparation,
preaching, and church ministry. During a recent lecture, one of the
students asked me, "If you could go back and give advice to yourself as a
beginning preacher, what would you say?"
I've been preaching now for more than 15 years. I don't know if
that's enough time to make me a Jedi Knight preacher who's fit to train
newbies. But it does feel long enough to think of what advice I would
give to myself if I could go back in time.
Here are seven suggestions for new preachers based on
self-reflection, as well as from observing new preachers over the past
decade and a half.
1. Preach the Word
This first word of advice should go without saying, which probably
means we need to say it a lot: preach the Word. Commit at the outset of
your ministry to expository preaching. What is expository preaching?
It's when the preacher makes the point of the text to be the point of
his sermon, which is then applied to the congregation. Continue at Jeramie Rinne
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