Listen Carefully

One of the difficulties of serving as pastors is that we seldom have the opportunity to regularly hear other pastors preach. We become very used to the sound of our own voices. We become comfortable with our own style of preaching. We even become quite satisfied with the way we go about preparing our sermons.

Now that I’m in my later years of life, I don’t get asked to preach very often any more. While I enjoy preaching a great deal, still believe I have much to contribute to the Kingdom, and remember fondly my days as a pastor and as a minister on radio and television, I now have the luxury of sitting in various congregations and listening to other pastors preach. In this new role, that of careful listener, I have found a whole new vista open up before me.

Since I have devoted these last years to providing help to pastors who want to improve the effectiveness of their preaching, by carefully listening to others preach I have come to understand so much more about what works and what doesn’t work from the perspective of the person in the pew.

Let me urge you to take every possible opportunity to listen very carefully to other ministers as they preach. If you do, I believe you will discover a valuable resource that can greatly enhance your own preaching.

If you would like to hear more of my comments on this subject, please click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach website. Once there, you may listen to Podcast No. 197. You will be able to hear me unfold more details about this valuable tool of carefully listening to other ministers as they preach.


Because I believe my new book contains significantly helpful information, I want to continue to call your attention to it. I’ve entitled this book The Sermon Sucking Black Hole—Why You Can’t Remember on Monday What Your Minister Preached on Sunday. You may pre-order the book at Amazon.com by clicking here.

This book gives information about how to make your sermons memorable. And, it also gives some solid tips to the people sitting in the congregation to help them remember what you’ve said. I’m sure you agree that, as ministers, when we share what God has laid on our hearts, we do want the people we serve to remember what we say.

 

 


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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