Over the course of my many years of pastoral experience and many conversations with other pastors, I’ve learned a good deal about how pastors think and feel. In most cases, pastors tend to try to conceal a lot of what they may think or feel about their own roles in ministry. That’s natural, I suppose. After all, pastors serve as spiritual leaders and leaders seem reluctant for anyone to uncover the totality of who they are.
Nevertheless, I have learned that most pastors have certain things that they wish for in their own ministerial roles. One of these things is to be able to preach with great authority. In theory, at least, no greater authority exists on earth than the proclaimed Word of God empowered by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it should be quite reasonable for pastors to possess the ability to preach with great authority.
One factor that seems to empower this ability comes into play during times of revival. As the Holy Spirit moves through a congregation bringing a fresh breath of new spiritual life, the preaching seems to come alive with greater power and quite distinctive authority.
I have made this very subject the focus on my chosen Podcast for this week, Podcast No. 44. I strongly urge you to click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach website where you can listen to this recorded conversation.
I routinely pray for my own pastor and for other pastors whose paths I have crossed over the course of my life. I urge you to choose another pastor you know for whom you can devote some time in prayer. If we could get groups of our fellow ministers praying for each other and particularly asking God to light the fires of revival within our congregations, I think we would discover a new excitement in the authority God would unleash in our preaching. And, I believe that strategy is certainly worth a try. Are you with me?
I continue to feel very grateful and am humbled by the many positive comments about my latest book entitled The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. This book is now available at Amazon.com by clicking here.
This book gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said from the pulpit when they come to worship services in the church where you serve as pastor.
Please click here to visit David Mains’ Sermon-Coach.com website.
You will also find a variety of resources for pastors and congregations at the Mainstay Ministries website. Please click here.
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