I have the privilege of visiting quite a significant number of different churches each year. This gives me the opportunity to hear a wide variety of preaching styles from the various ministers. These opportunities often remind me of a question I received from a student when I taught preaching at Wheaton College Graduate School many years ago.
About half way through the course, this student stayed after class to ask me, “What’s the best preaching style?”
Now, I may have been tempted—just for a moment—to reply, “Why the style that I’m teaching you, of course.” But, my better judgment prevailed and I carefully explained to the student that there were actually many different preaching styles. “What’s best,” I told him, “is the preaching style that helps you effectively communicate God’s Word to your listeners.”
I develop this same theme with greater detail in Podcast No. 201. If you would like to hear what I have to say on this important subject, I invite you to click the link on this page that will take you to my Sermon-Coach.com website. Once on that site, you will be able to listen to this particular Podcast. To do so, you must sign up for a “FREE Membership” to the site. All it takes is your name and email address.
It is my sincere hope that you will find the information I share in this Podcast very helpful, as you strive to develop the most effective style for your own preaching.
Once you have done your very best to prepare a thoughtful and challenging message, you surely want to communicate it to the members of your congregation in the most effective way. I believe I can help you do so. In fact, that’s what my Sermon-Coach.com website is really all about: helping pastors create effective, life-transforming sermons.
For several weeks, I’ve shared with you about my new book entitled 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.
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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