God’s Grace or Mere Methods?

Willimon, in The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized writes:

The challenge of being an evangelistic preacher is the precarious willingness to allow God to use us to assemble the church, which is often a church we would not have assembled if assembling a church were only a matter of methods of church growth rather than a matter of God’s grace.

Church as Merely Agency

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Exegeting a Text of Scripture – The Four Waves

Subscribers to the SoulPreacher have already received this article in the 31st edition of the Soul Preacher email magazine. In addition, those who have attended our second web seminars have seen the expansion of this concept. However, everyone else can now learn from this very powerful way of looking at exegesis of the text for preaching.

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How Many Sermons Do You Really Preach?

Over at the Biblical Preaching website there is an interesting question. “Are there really only three scriptures in the Bible?” He notes that if you listen to most of the sermons presented by preachers you will see a limited number of sermons. The outlines are as follows:

  1. Jesus died for your sins, repent and believe, when you die you’ll go to heaven
  2. Read the Bible more, pray more, evangelize more
  3. Have more faith, be more obedient.
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