#128 | On Pulpit Ethics
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
Whatever happened to pulpit ethics?
Pulpit ethics are pulpit manners which include dos and don'ts for those who stand in corporate worship to preach God's word. Unfortunately, we no longer have pulpits. We now have stages. We no longer have ethics. We not have platforms. But pulpit ethics still matter.
What are the basics of pulpit ethics?
- Physical Posture
- Appropriate Attire
- Reverent Spech
- Nonverbal Communication
- Personal Distraction
- Worship Participation
- Spiritual Sensitivity
BOOK RECOMMENDATION: "Expositional Preaching" by David Helm
"Expository preaching is empowered preachign that rightfully submits the shape and emphasis of the sermon to the shape and emphasis of the biblical text. In that way, it brings out of the text what the Holy Spirit put there... and does not put into the text what the preacher things might be there." - David Helm
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. |
| 0:13.1 | The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 0:32.3 | Good day and thanks for listening to the armed preaching podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | My name is H.B. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to those of you who may be catching this podcast for the first time. I hope you'll like and subscribe and comment to help others find the podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | And thank you for those of you who are longtime listeners who have asked over and over again. |
| 0:51.9 | HB, when are you getting back to the podcast? Well, I'm getting back to the |
| 0:57.4 | podcast slowly but surely and I hope these podcasts are a blessing to you to help you preach |
| 1:04.4 | faithfully, clearly and better. In this episode, I want to talk to you about pulpit ethics. |
| 1:13.7 | Whatever happened to pulpit ethics when I was a young preacher and by that I mean a boy preacher over hearing my |
| 1:22.8 | dad's weekly meetings with associate ministers and local pastors, some aspect of what was called |
| 1:30.6 | pulpit ethics regularly discussed from week to week. Where did that conversation go? In my library, |
| 1:41.7 | I have multiple books that specifically address the subject of pulpit ethics. |
| 1:49.9 | You would find, if not whole books, that books on preaching would include some sections, some chapter that would discuss pulpit ethics or pulpit manners. |
| 2:05.5 | What happened? We don't seem to talk about pulpit ethics, pulpit manners much any more. |
| 2:14.8 | Whatever happened to pulpit ethics? Well, you may say, this is a new phrase to me. What in the |
| 2:20.8 | world does this even mean? Basically, pulpit ethics are pulpit manners, which simply include |
| 2:30.4 | dues and don'ts for those who stand in the corporate worship of God's people to preach |
| 2:38.1 | the sacred scriptures. There are ways simply we should and should not conduct ourselves when |
| 2:46.8 | we stand in worship to preach. |
| 2:54.7 | Problem is twofold now. |
| 2:59.2 | We no longer have pulpits in many instances. |
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