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Stop Preaching and Start Communicating
stop preaching and start communicatingStop Preaching and Start Communicating In the last couple of posts I explored methods that will help you preach to your whole congregation, to relate to the variety of people in it. With this post we’re going to change gears, and explore another avenue to learn how you can become a more effective preacher. […]
Preaching to Everyone in the Congregation
Top Preaching TipsPreaching to Everyone in the Congregation In the last post we began looking at the challenge of preaching to everyone in the congregation that is varied by education, by ethnicity, by age, by financial situation, etc. How do you do that? I suggested in the last post that we can preach to everyone in particular […]
Preaching to Everyone In Particular
Top Preaching TipsPreaching to Everyone In Particular One of the greatest challenges I faced in preaching was to relate to my entire audience, or, as the title of this post describes, “preaching to everyone in particular”. In the last congregation I served, Covenant Life Church in Grand Haven, MI, there were doctors, Phd’s, teachers, businessmen and lawyers. There […]
The Preacher As Mystic and Shepherd
The character of the preacherMystic and Shepherd I am in a series of posts on the character of the preacher. We’ve seen, in the previous two posts, that congregations expect their pastor to be a person of faith, and they want their pastor to give accurate information. There are two other expectations that I want to explore in […]
The Preacher as Informer
The character of the preacherThe Preacher as Informer, Mystic, and Shepherd In the last post I began the process of what I called “exegeting the preacher”. In other words, how does the character of the preacher impact how people hear what is said? We also saw in the last post that hearers expect the preacher to be a person […]