#131 | The Ministry of Application
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This is The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
In this episode, H.B. talks about the ministry of application. A biblical sermon should consist of explanation, illustration, and application.
We are prone to skip over application, or do it wrong. It is critical that preachers take application seriously and work to do it effectively.
How can I practice the ministry of application effectively?
- Apply the text.
- Pray for wisdom.
- Know your audience.
- Make pastoral applications.
- Ask probinh questions.
- Craft your application.
- Illustrate for application.
- Address different categories.
- Apply throughout the sermon.
- Trust the Holy Spirit.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. |
| 0:13.0 | The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 0:23.9 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:28.3 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about the ministry of application. |
| 0:35.3 | Admittedly, this is not the greatest area of strength in my preaching. |
| 0:42.1 | If preaching can be divided into two major sections, explanation and exhortation, I think my default mode is to spend more time in explanation than in exhortation. |
| 0:59.0 | I consider my preaching to be that of a glorified Sunday school teacher. |
| 1:05.0 | I want to show the listener the wonders, the jewels, the beauties that I find in the text and I have to work hard |
| 1:16.0 | at being intentional in in raising the exhortations implications and applications |
| 1:24.7 | that should arise from the text one of the ways that I take that |
| 1:30.6 | more seriously is to remind myself prayerfully that application is a ministry |
| 1:38.0 | it is more than just an element of the sermon it is more than just a homiletical technique. It is more than just a |
| 1:49.1 | functional matter of pulpit ministry. It is the pastoral work of ministering the |
| 1:59.5 | truth to the hearts and minds of those who would hear you. |
| 2:05.6 | Biblical sermon should have three elements. |
| 2:11.9 | Explanation, illustration, and application. |
| 2:16.9 | You should, in that sermon sermon be explaining the text explaining the god-intended |
| 2:25.3 | meaning of the text what does the text mean by what the text says not only that there should be |
| 2:33.4 | some illustration if you, there should be some illustration. If you will, |
| 2:38.1 | there should, as you erect the house, you should include windows so that the light of the truth |
| 2:46.6 | becomes clearer in the mind and heart of those who will hear the message. |
| 2:52.3 | This was a primary method that Jesus himself used in his public teaching. |
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