Great Preacher or Great Pastor
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What would you rather be…
A great pastor….
Or a Great Preacher?
Yeah, I know you want to be both..
But what if you had to choose one?
A great pastor is going to mentor and disciple folks to help them become better representatives of the most high God.
The great preacher is going to provide messages that are like time bombs to blow up in the minds of the people…they blow up messages of hope and power right when the hearer needs it…
A great pastor is loved by the people and when the people need somebody to stand beside them in life’s struggles…they call the pastor…
A great preacher is loved by the people as well..and when a word of hope and power is needed…they pop in the tape or turn on the mp3 player to the preacher’s message…
In the final analysis…
God sends the great pastor…when the great pastor is needed…
And God sends the great preacher…when the great preacher is needed…
So which is better?
Both are needed…and both have their place…
And if you are a great preacher….be the great preacher God called you to be…and go head and work on those pastoral skills…
If you are a great pastor…be that great pastor…and yes work on those preaching skills…
The historic Black pastor and preacher helped us through the pains and hurts with a combination of pastoring and preaching and mentoring..and advocacy skills that allowed a people to make it through what they couldn’t make it through otherwise…
And that’s what my work is about….
If you want to see how this translates into a homieltic framework..then check out my homileitc at http://www.superchargeyoursermons.net.
Audio – Bible Teaching in the Church
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I sent out a request for tips on Bible Teaching. Specifically how to strengthen Sunday/Sabbath school and the Wednesday Night Bible Study. Pastor Anthony Watson provided some very helpful tips and that is the basis of this audio.
Check it out.
Five Things The Listener Wants From The Sermon
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What do your listeners want? In this audio I give a discussion of 5 things that I want from the preacher when I am listening to sermons.
3 Approaches to Preaching
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Peter Mead writes about 3 approaches to preaching on his blog. It is a helpful description of some of the things we do when we enter the pulpit.
Listen to my discussion on the subject and then go check out Mead’s article
If You Ain’t Saying Nothing, Why Are You Preaching?
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How many times have you got in the pulpit and weren’t saying anything worth hearing?
Somebody said,
“There are two kinds of preachers…
Those who have to say SOMETHING…
And THOSE who have SOMETHING TO SAY!”
Hmmm….
