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Post by evanschaible on Apr 8, 2006 17:11:57 GMT -5
i thought it might be edifying for all if we had a thread that offered advice to 'rookies' and other preachers. Allow me to start...
When you preach, dont talk to man, that will make you nervous. When you preach preach to God. As stupid as it sounds that I believe is the secret to powerful preaching. This way it is you and God, answer hecklers in the light of God's majesty and holiness, ask Him for the answer. He will bring to remembrance all you have heard of him.
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Post by Evan on Apr 9, 2006 8:45:50 GMT -5
Never scream -John Wesley
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Post by evanschaible on Apr 9, 2006 8:53:57 GMT -5
This thread is pointless, I didnt know this topic was even here. Oh well
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Post by Jesse Morrell on Apr 9, 2006 9:04:04 GMT -5
"It never does any good to preach to people. No, you must preach at them!" C. H. Spurgeon
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Post by Jesse Morrell on Apr 9, 2006 9:19:43 GMT -5
I concur with the Spurgeon quote. When you are on the street, do not preach a sermon to people as though you were talking about other people. Saying things like, "Some people sin and will get drunk. And they do not know Jesus." That is talking to people as though you were refering to other people. Rather you must say, "Some of you people sin and some of you get drunk. You do not know Jesus." On the streets especially your preaching must be sharp, pointy, and personal. Here is an article with many "Points For Preaching" www.openairoutreach.proboards52.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=articles&thread=1144592562&page=1
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Post by evanschaible on Apr 9, 2006 9:27:34 GMT -5
I agree, What I meant by the qoute above is put yourself alone with God, say nouns like 'you' and the such, never say 'we', or 'I'.
Also a point for jail preachers, dont tell them they are in jail, they know that. Tell them that they are in the prision of sin, waiting on death row, and unless Jesus offer them the keys they will persih.
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Post by evanschaible on Apr 9, 2006 9:36:26 GMT -5
Not a normal point, but thought provoking....
Do we kow who we are? By: Paul Ravenhill
At the end of this twentieth century, in the midst of the surrounding decadence, the only way for us to fill our place as Christians is to know who we are. It is vital that we associate ourselves, in our thinking and our living, with those things which form the foundations of the kingdom of God.
As the things which can be shaken are shaken in the coming times, it is essential that we not be participants of these things.
The nature of the kingdom of God is totally different from the nature of the society around us and it is necessary that we judge not by the 'good intentions' and smiling faces, but by that which is in the heart - the purity, the intensity, the hatred of sin, of mixture, of falsehood.
On the 'Richter scale' of human emotions, how deep does it go when we pray 'Thy Kingdom come?' Is it mixed with a looking for a place for ourselves - a place of recognition, of comfort, of financial abundance? Is there a wanting to minister, write books, and sell tapes in order to make a name and a place for ourselves?
We would do well, in the last year of this century and millennium, to examine our lives in the light of the Word of God. We would do well to see how we align ourselves with those awesome and absolute words which speak of the cost of discipleship, and the great divide between what rules in man's world and what rules in the Kingdom of God.
As we bring our bodies and souls in the realm of the Kingdom, there comes an unveiling and a quickening from God... Faith is born and flourishes Light increases more and more And in the flow of spiritual life, natural capacities are superseded and spiritual capacities enlarged and strengthened.
"Thy Kingdom come..."
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Post by evanschaible on Apr 12, 2006 14:42:42 GMT -5
Preach to the heart, filet the conscience with the law of God, then heal the wounds with the healing power of the gospel.
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