Nine Keys to Successful Sermon Preparation – Rainer on Leadership #097
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Preparing to preach a sermon, or multiple sermons, each week is the most daunting and most important thing a pastor does as the shepherd of a church. So this week, we cover some essential practices for pastors to employ that will aid in sermon preparation.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
Preaching should be one of the highest priorities in the ministry of a pastor.
Worship leaders love pastors who communicate what they are going to preach and when.
If you try to do sermon prep in your margins of time, you’ll never have enough time and the sermons will suffer.
What gets calendared gets done. — Michael Hyatt
Add an extra 20% of time to your sermon prep time to have margin for emergencies.
Set a sermon completion target date. Try to make that earlier in the week to account for issues that may come up in the church.
The 9 keys for successful sermon preparation are:
Make it a priority
Determine your comfort level with planning in advance
Let your congregation know of the priority
Put it in your calendar
Allocate 20% more time than you think you will need
Allocate your time according to your study plan: reading the text, draft, commentaries, etc.
Determine a completion day: ex: done by Thursday
Be prepared to change
Don’t leave out prayer
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