55 Tips for Improving Your Pulpit Ministry
Edited by Scott M. Gibson
Contributions by
Haddon W. Robinson
Jeffrey D. Arthurs
Patricia M. Batten
Scott M. Gibson
Matthew D. Kim
Preaching Points: 55 Tips for Improving Your Pulpit Ministry
© 2016 by Scott M. Gibson
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To our former, present, and future students—that they
preach faithfully God’s Word.
2. Go to the Bible to hear God speak
4. Being biblical and contemporary is the art of Christian communication
5. Speaking truth to people takes moral courage
6. We need scholarly evangelists and evangelistic scholars
7. Sermon preparation is twenty hours of prayer
9. Give your listeners the opportunity to respond to the message
11. Guard your sermon preparation time
14. Interrupt your preaching plan
15. Don’t just get feedback, get feedforward
16. A wise leader works exercise into his or her schedule
17. Lay hold of the Bible until the Bible lays hold of you
18. Use your introduction to set up the body of the message
19. The essence of good preaching is unity, order, and progress
20. Diversify your illustrations
21. Conclusions should come to a burning focus
22. It doesn’t all depend on you
23. Preach as a dying man to dying men
24. Be yourself when you preach
25. Mobilize your language and send it into battle
26. The better you know yourself, the better you can serve God in the situation in which God has placed you
27. Feed my lambs, not feed my giraffes
29. In our preaching, less is more
31. Preach “we” more than “you”
33. Paper is a poor conductor of heat
34. Effective preachers exegete the Bible and their people
35. Observant preachers make insightful preachers
37. Preach to one person at a time
38. People-pleasing puts the pulpit in peril
39. Preach to those you want to come
40. Take a survey of who’s listening
41. Gentleness isn’t for wimps
About Preaching Points: 55 Tips for Improving Your Pulpit MinistryThis volume is a collection of some of the best of the hundreds of Preaching Points that the Haddon W. Robinson Center for Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary has produced. Preaching Points is a weekly podcast on iTunes U that features conversations on preaching by Haddon Robinson, Jeffrey Arthurs, Matthew Kim, and Patricia Batten—all members of the preaching faculty of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton campus. This book offers diverse topics based upon on how they relate to preaching—the preacher’s spiritual life, the way to preach, the way to live life as preachers, their role as a preacher, considerations for listeners, and so forth. |
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