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Biblical Preaching

By: Haddon W. Robinson

• We cannot separate ourselves from the Scripture.
• Preaching is truth poured through personality – Philips Brooks
• Preaching should develop the preacher into a mature Christian.
• The Bible is the supreme preacher to the preacher – PT Forsyth
• Many preachers fail as Christians before they fail as preachers.
• Preaching comes alive when the disciplined mind and loving heart are going to the Holy Spirit.
• We must learn to listen to God before we speak for God.
• As we study the Scriptures, we must understand first of all what God is saying in this portion of Scripture. We then must understand what God wants to change in us because of the Scripture. Lastly we must understand what God wants to use us to teach the listeners through this passage.
• We must know the people as we learn the Scriptures. Our Lord spoke to the people and their needs in that day. Each letter in the Bible was addressed in a different way because the people were dealing with different things – the Philippians from the Corinthian‘s, etc.
• Sermons do not fail because they have too many ideas but because they have unrelated ideas.
• Every Scripture should have a theme.
• You are not ready to preach until you can condense the message down to one pregnant sentence.
• We must be careful to not let theological jargon stand in the way of being clear when we preach.
• If you do not apply the Scriptures to peoples lives, you cannot expect them to do it.
• Our listeners need both the truth to believe and the ways to apply it.
• Ask yourself why you are preaching that sermon. A sermon without a purpose is meaningless.
• A sermon with purpose is what differentiates it from being a mere essay.
• A sermon is not to be like shooting a firecracker that just makes a noise, it is to be like shooting a gun in which the hunter looks to see his target hit.
• Write down in a statement what you want the hearers to do as a result of what you preached.
• People need to be reminded just as much as they need to be informed.
• Jesus was such a good storyteller that many times one did not even realize when the theological truths were being placed in the story.
• There are three kinds of preachers: those that you cannot listen to, those that you can listen to, and those that you must listen to. In the introduction, the congregation will decide which one you are.

7 Laws of the Teacher

by Howard Hendricks

• • Law of Teacher

• Teacher is coach and doesn’t play but teaches students to play
• Teaching is both a science and an art
• Knowledge is proud because knows so much, wisdom is humble because knows so little

• • Law of Education

• Key to education is not what you do but what the students do
• If you want to change someone, change their thinking, not their appearance.
• In parable of sower, only one difference: the sower is the same, the seed is the same, only the soil is different – its what people hear and do.
• You can not prohibit without providing – give opportunities

• • Law of Activity

• Maximum learning is a result of maximum invovlement
• Teaching is not an end but a means to an end
• I hear & forget; I see and remember; I do and understand
  • You remember up to 10% of what you hear
  • You remember up to 50% of what you hear and see
  • You remember up to 90% of what you hear, see and do.

• • Law of Communication

• Test of communication is not what I’m feeling and saying, but what they are feeling and understanding
• Purpose of communication is not to impress, its to imporat; not to simply convince, its to change.
• Provide direction, not dictatorship
• You test your teaching by seeing what student is doing.

• • Law of Heart

• Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

• • Law of Encouragement

• Someone’s M-Q (motivation-Q) is more important than their I-Q
• As a teacher, I can only work on the outside of them, I cannot work on the inside of them – so I must motivate them.
• Motivation is very important – many people do not do something just because they are not motivated. We can guilt people into things for a while and they do what is asked, but after a while, they will only do what they are motivated to do.
• When was the last time you challenged someone?
• Simply telling the student you believe in them
• You motivate a person when you

• Create a Need – everyone has needs, maybe just not aware of them, so the teacher must show them.
• By developing responsibility with accountability
  • more you put into something, the more you appreciate it
  • The US spends millions of dollars on an airplane and puts it into a young person to fly it – and when young person comes to church we don’t let them do anything.
• By structuring experience – what is process of training people:
  • Telling stage – need to hear it
  • Showing stage – need to see it
  • Doing stage – need to hear, see and do it, but under supervision.

• Everyone can be motivated – but you first must be motivated yourself

• • Law of Readiness

• When student and teacher are readily prepared, more will be done.
• Learning is most effective when the student is adequately prepared
• If you come into the class asking about their lives, you will get more out of them contrary to just teaching

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1. Train at least one usher to stand in door/ listen/ help control service/welcome people
2. Use a minimum of 2 ushers. Choose a spot during break
3. Print welcome on door or walk have wet down before each service
4. Have ushers ready to take out chairs
5. Are you using visitor cards?
6. Get information by giving away Bibles but need info
7. Get away prized based on faithful attendance
8. In Sunday school teach how to read the Bible Sword drill/ book of the Bible
9. Break up service/Sunday school in short parts to not let them get bored
10. Gospel tracts need to be available so that can take them
11. Need invitation read for next service to anyone & give them.
12. Some sort of bulletin. Children lesson to take home. Drawing/life truth
13. 8 under 12, 6 teens,    39
14. Back ground music playing before, after, and between services
15. Practice with usher, helping them get to seat
16. Set up the nursery- children’s area
17. Ushers gives those that leave early material
18. Train people to sit with visitors & help them find verses in the Bible
19. Do other churches have tea or snack for children
20. Make Sunday school and everything like TV program, grab interest, make classes, interest to study
21. Install ceiling fans
22. Work on venting for air flow if possible. Consider where you have crowd
23. Shorter break – so they don’t leave
24. Sing some songs so they all sing. Spread out those that they know
25. Due to outside noise use PA and set speaker up high – Hand held mic. Background noise ruining everything
26. More light over and towards pulpit
27. Have some sort of greeting time -10 seconds- they love to greet apparently
28. Write Baptism tract with graphics explaining for them to give out
29. Static web page set up to mobile they can get to
30. Set up to text announcement to all each week
31. Set up Facebook page from web
32. Put all video and audio lings on web page
33. Speaker outside for nosy people
34. As soon as possible Sunday school class for young adults. You write the lesson. Teach in teachers and workers meeting. Sunday school divided.
35. Divide Sunday school time.  Never a segment longer than 12 min
36. Have people stand to sing
37. Put up a calendar of church events /social
38. Get giving envelops
39. Plan charter organizational service in the next year
40. Visitor cards or something. Must learn who came
41. Decision cards
42. Train councilors
43. Work all week- practicing what each will do. They have to be there. Prepare with them
44. Explain every move. Even how to use a song sheet- until all learn
45. Order of service given to all who will participate including ushers
46. Explain all Bible & reference words at all times
47. Think of how a believer first time hears everything
48. Remember the biggest enemy.
49. Have practice sessions or everything. Ushers, Music, choir, specials, Bible verses, welcome, helping others find things in their Bibles. Sundays we run the plays we practice during the week. Get as many people as possible practicing each thing. Get subs ready
50. Have Bible reading in service. Teach them to read. They need to practice his reading. Give attentions to reading
51. Explain silent prayer. Praying is everything. So I learn what is helping.
52. Always make sure you can look everyone in the eyes
53. Get sign up sheet for disciple. Set up a time for all new believers to tell
54. Have each of your guys look for 3 guys they can teach to do all they can do. Their job- find others train them and then move up.
55. 6 circling fans
56. Find jobs for anyone that comes semi-regular. Don’t worry if they miss.