Kindle Notes & Highlights
comfort to hurting hearts. They must apply Scripture to bring God’s peace to discouraged souls.
Strengthen the Weak
Equip the Servants
“Equipping” (katartismos) means to restore something that is broken to usefulness.
Equipping
Assure the Doubters
The assurance of salvation comes, ultimately, through seeing the reality of personal holiness in one’s life.
Assurance personal holiness
Awaken the Sleeping
Rather than putting people to sleep, your exposition must awaken them.
The preaching of John the Baptist was described by Jesus as “the lamp that was burning and was shining” (John 5:35). His preaching gave off both light and heat.
John’s preaching
Do your expositions come with a dynamism that arouses slumbering saints who are spiritually lethargic?
Goo questions for preaches
Challenge the Unaware
Your preaching should call for self-examination, motivating people to search themselves for genuine evidence of saving grace.
Your pulpit ministry should ask heart-searching questions of those who hear you.
you raise questions in your preaching that cause people to examine themselves?
Evangelize the Lost
Expositors are charged to be soul winners. Bible preachers must seek to win people to Christ.
Make the Connection
It is important to assess where you are as a preacher.
How can you become more effective in your pulpit ministry? How can you advance to the next level of excellence? How can you have more power in your delivery?
Key probing questions
Sit under Great Preaching
sit under the best preaching
sit near the front of the worship center and glean as much as they can, up close, from the delivery of a gifted expositor.
If you are already preaching, you should attend conferences where noted preachers are speaking.
compare one speaker to another. Observe their strengths and weaknesses and relate them to where you are in your preaching.
Critique and compare
styles
body language, gestures,
Tune your ear to the sound of notable preaching.
Sermons are primarily meant to be heard, not read.
Read Great Preaching
studying great preaching in print, either in a book or online.
was, I learned far more from reading the sermons of pulpit giants from past centuries such as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and Charles Spurgeon.
from George Whitefield and Charles Spurgeon how to preach the gospel and urge lost souls to believe in the Savior.
James Montgomery Boice,
is like taking a master class in preaching. Before entering the pastorate, Boice was an English major at Harvard University, and he served as editor of Christianity Today.
Transcribe Great Preaching
transcribing an expository sermon.
I absorbed the movement, flow, and cadence of great sermons that shaped my understanding of what I needed to do.
Learn from Several Preachers Do not limit yourself by being influenced by only one pulpit personality.
You will adopt not only that preacher’s strengths, but also their weaknesses. Hearing multiple preachers will ensure the balance you need in learning to preach.
Each will round off some of your rough edges.
Preach as Much as Possible
You need to preach regularly to become more proficient,
Preach in Different Settings
Preach a Short Book
A book like Ruth or Jonah could also be a good place to begin to get your feet on the ground. Or you could start with Titus or Jude.
Preach the Whole Bible
you preach narratives,
Instead, expositing these dramatic stories will help you become more impassioned.
Improve Your Grammar
Read, Write, and Rewrite
