Preaching Workshops 20089

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Preaching Workshops 2008-9

• TSW foundations
• Communication in contemporary culture
• How people learn
• Interpretation of the Bible
• The preachers personal discipline
• The preacher and the congregation

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Training in sermon delivery

• First hand experience feedback reflection
• Summer placements
• Sunday placements
• Interactive workshops
• Aspects of sermon planning and delivery
• e.g. structure, oral language, introductions

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Putting it all together

• Public speaking skills
• Skills in planning the sermon
• Interpreting Scripture
• Interpreting society, culture, local scene
• Relationships with the congregation

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The Word of God as Event

• Jeremiah 11-2The words of Jeremiah son of
  Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in
  the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the
  Lord came
• Hosea 11The word of the Lord that came to Hosea
  son of Beeri, in the days of Kings Uzziah,
  Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah, and in the
  days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel.

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The Word of God as Event

• The Word of the Lord came
• to a particular person, place and time
• and causes something to happen
• The world is created (Genesis 1)
• Abraham leaves his home (Genesis 12)
• Dry bones become living (Ezekiel 37)

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The Word of God as Event

• Isaiah 5510-11
• For as the rain and the snow come down from
  heaven,   and do not return there until they
  have watered the earth,making it bring forth and
  sprout,   giving seed to the sower and bread to
  the eater, so shall my word be that goes out
  from my mouth   it shall not return to me
  empty,but it shall accomplish that which I
  purpose,   and succeed in the thing for which I
  sent it.

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The Word of God as event

• The meaning is gradually revealed
• Genesis 121-2
• The Lord said to Abram Go I will make of you a
  great nation, and I will bless you, and make your
  name great, so that you will be a blessing in
  you shall all the families of the earth be
  blessed.

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The Word of God as Event

• Because there is more meaning in the Word than is
  apparent at first, it is
• recorded
• collected
• reflected on
• reinterpreted
• inspires fresh event e.g. Jeremiah Hoseas
  successor

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The Word of God in the Sermon

• is given through a particular person you
• in a particular time and place here and now
• to particular people this congregation
• true to Scripture
• inspired by the Holy Spirit

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Three Stages of Preaching

• Stage 1 deciding on the message
• Stage 2 planning the sermon
• Stage 3 delivering the sermon

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Outcome of Stage 1

• Content the message in one sentence
• Intention teach, encourage, warn, etc
• Expected response
• a definite action e.g. increase giving
• a change of attitude e.g. to asylum seekers
• a new framework of interpretation e.g. daily
  work

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Preaching disciplines

• Know the Bible
• Read Bible regularly for yourself
• Ask what it is saying to you
• Techniques of biblical meditation e.g. Ignatian
• Use commentary
• Complete Bible overview at dh.org

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Preaching disciplines

• Love the congregation
• They dont care how much you know until they
  know how much you care
• Ethos an important element in persuasion
  depends on your character

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Preaching disciplines

• Love the congregation including challenge
• I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole
  purpose of God (Acts 2027)
• .. Warning everyone and teaching everyone in all
  wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in
  Christ (Colossians 128)

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Preaching disciplines

• Depend on the Spirit
• The power, presence and purpose of God
• in the Bible
• in you
• in the congregation
• in the event

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The Word of God through the preacher

• 2 Corinthians 215-17
• For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those
  who are being saved and among those who are
  perishing to the one a fragrance from death to
  death, to the other a fragrance from life to
  life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we
  are not peddlers of Gods word like so many but
  in Christ we speak as persons of sincerity, as
  persons sent from God and standing in his
  presence.

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Workshop

• Choose between the following passages
• Exodus 321-14
• Philippians 41-9
• Matthew 221-14

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Workshop

• For ONE of the passages, suggest
• A message, in one sentence
• An intention e.g. teach, challenge, encourage,
  warn, inspire, affirm
• An outcomee.g. a definite action, a change of
  attitude, a new perspective on a situation