What is good preaching?
I suppose it takes all sorts but good preaching must have integrity. We are not in the buisness of hiding what we believe in order to make it more palatable to our hearers. There must be faithfulness. We tell all of it to all people. No jumping over the hard bits, no leaving out the hard pieces like Hell and judgement.
It's got to be intelligible. We must speak plainly and clearly in the language that everyone can understand. No wooliness in our presentation.
And it should have humility. The worst sort of preaching glorifies the preacher. We live with the professional christian superstar today but it's sick and we must take our lead from Paul who said "we preach not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord."
As a recent speaker at CFC said "I want to remove every barrier that stops people coming to Christ. The only thing I want them to take offence at is the message."
posted by Paul Reid at 1:18 PM
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shouldhave been under "What is good preaching?" Jim
1:39 PM
Maybe we have made something out of preaching that is separate from Christ Himself.
Sometimes it seems that just like with Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers we have made preaching more of what “I do” rather than what “I am” in Him and what He is, in and through me. More of a position and profession or something apart from an increase of His life. He is the Apostle, He is the Prophet, etc. and just like those ministries/manifestations of His life, the foolishness of preaching is and will be necessary until we all come to Eph 4:10-13….He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.) 11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. (and we all aint yet)
Gal 1:15-1615 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased 16 to reveal His Son In me so that I might preach Him
Christ revealed in,in,in,in, Paul caused him to become the message as he preached HIM !
I do not blame people for not wanting to hear preaching if it is just another religious thing we do.
What makes me a Christian? Is it my religious belief, appearance, and speech? Or is it the presence of Christ. What makes a Church? Is it a building with a steeple or the presence of Christ Himself thus making it the Body of Christ.
Just like a marriage. It started with a certificate and a wedding but it is not until two became one and there is a consistent, continual, eternal, ongoing relationship do we have a marriage. Sometimes it seems like we point (preach) people to our marriage certificate and tell them that is a marriage or Christianity. We preach stuff more than we preach Christ as our life NOW! Its like preaching on love with out reconciling them to the one who is love. At best you have a human improvement course that some will call good preaching.
Catch on fire and people will come and watch you burn. Preach! Even if requires standing behind a pulpit sometimes.
Sorry about the grammar. I love the Lord but could use a little more education.
Jim
2:08 PM
A good preaching is when it can touch life of people and move them inside their heart.
Forgive my terrible English
6:20 PM
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