One of my priorities is to train people for preaching and teaching. This also means that I get involved in assessing and offering feedback. Here’s what I’m looking out for.
A. What the preacher knows
- Scripture. Did they have a good handle on what the passage says. Could they submit up in one sentence
- Themselves .…. A sense of their own heart condition, motivation and priorities
- The congregation – we’re they alert to the needs of all
Notes
- It does not mean they will communicate everything they know
- They may be at different levels of awareness. E.g. some preachers may have a good read of the whole room, others will have a sense of what some people need.
B. What the preacher communicates
I’m focusing specifically on expository preaching. We need to remember that many people may not know what this means as a concept. Even if they have experience of preaching based on a text, they may not know what expository preaching is.
- The applied primary purpose of the passage – so that the congregation know what God’s is saying to them through that specific passage
- Their working out. Can the congregation see how the preacher got there. The aim is to help them see for themselves. It should not feel like rabbits were pulled from the hat. I don’t want people to be amazed at what I found in the text. I want them to feel like it was obvious by the end.
- A flavour of what us going in, so they are helped to know and remember what Scripture says. It’s the word if Christ that we want to dwell richly in them.
C How the preacher communicates
- Authentic to their own character
- With the grain of Scripture. … So does the style fit the genre?
- With warmth and love
- Engaging. Are they listenable to?
- Clear and understandable
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