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Over at the Placement Reflections blog Ed Eubanks writes about the importance of seminary students actually preaching sermons in churches before graduation. Interestingly enough, I reflected on my own seminary experience and realized that in my first 3 Homiletics courses I had only preached 2 sermons. At that point, I looked at the curriculum and fully realized it was possible to leave seminary with a MDiv and have not taken any preaching courses nor preached any sermons.
How important is it to preach in seminary when you can critically reflect on what you have done?
I am beginning to feel a little unease about the small amount of preaching in seminary. hey, that’s part of the reason why I started SoulPreaching to celebrate Black Preaching and how it can support the preacher.
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You’re exactly right. While working on my M.Div. I had the privilege of doing a couple of internships in which I preached dozens of sermons. Not only did I have the opportunity to preach, but I was blessed to have the help of a mentor with more than 50 years of preaching experience. Truly a blessing.
Yes I must go ahead and begin inquiring about preaching engagements. In the end if we are preachers we must “do the deed” and preach.