Evaluate Off-Site

As pastors, we realize that the members of our congregations talk among themselves about what we’ve shared during our weekly sermons. At least we hope that’s what happens. We earnestly desire our congregants to discuss and evaluate what we’ve said. If they do so, perhaps some of the truth we’ve shared from God’s Word will take hold in their hearts.

But, we also realize that there is a time and place to perform such an evaluation. That’s the subject of my Podcast 230 for this week: When and where should the people in my congregation talk about my sermon?

If you would like to listen to this Podcast, I would suggest that you click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach.com website and choose this particular Podcast from the menu. As you listen, you will realize that I am mostly talking to members of your congregation. But, I suspect you will both appreciate and affirm what I have to say.

We pastors don’t want to preach in a vacuum. We want honest and respectful evaluation. But, we do not want to foster a culture that routinely “roasts the pastor” by evaluating too harshly what we’ve shared. After all, we pastors are human, too.

The responsibility of leading a congregation along a straight pathway toward ever-more-effective spiritual formation is an assignment from the Lord that we pastors do not take lightly. We also realize we cannot do this without the help and support of those to whom we minister.

Perhaps you will want to share the content of this Podcast with some of the key members of your congregations. I think they will benefit from hearing what I have to say.


I continue to receive 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 your church.

 


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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