How to Evaluate Sermons: How Do You Evaluate Yourself as a Preacher?

Joel R. Beeke

ISBN 10: 0852347782 / ISBN 13: 9780852347782

Edité par Evangelical Press, 2012

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Synopsis :

How do you evaluate yourself as a preacher? A preacher s view of his own messages can be an emotional roller-coaster ride driven by his moods and the responses of the congregation. We dare not evaluate ourselves by measurable results such as increased attendance or new members joining the church, for people often flock to false teachers like flies to manure. Nor can we gauge our effectiveness by a brother who shoots out of a worship service like a bullet out of a rifle while a woman gets misty-eyed and emotional in shaking your hand after a sermon. For all you know, the brother was suddenly taken ill, and the sister received bad news yesterday about a distant relative. Neither response necessarily has anything to do with your preaching. My father was once so moved by a child s intense listening that he questioned her about what she found so important. She responded, I was trying to figure out if you had shaved this morning. We must regularly evaluate our preaching to know if we are growing as preachers. Charles Spurgeon (1834 1892) said to his ministerial students, I give you the motto, Go forward. Go forward in personal attainments, forward in gifts and in grace, forward in fitness for the work, and forward in conformity to the image of Jesus. He went on to say, If there be any brother here who thinks he can preach as well as he should, I would advise him to leave off altogether.

À propos de l'auteur: Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, editor of Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. His Ph.D. is in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology from Westminster Theological Seminary.

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Titre : How to Evaluate Sermons: How Do You Evaluate...
Éditeur : Evangelical Press
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : Couverture souple
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