#133 | Preaching Hurt
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
It has been said that you should preach to broken hearts, as there is one in every pew. But what do you do when the broken heart is in the pulpit?
There are times when the preach goes to the pulpit with great joy. He cannot wait to stand to preach. He can barely stand as he preaches. He feels he will float away as the Holy Spirit holds him up in the pulpit.
Those good times in pulpit ministry won't last forever. There will be times when the preacher must drag himself to the pulpit with a troubled mind, a weary spirit, and a broken heart. If you remain in ministry long enought, you will have to preach your way through personal, family, and even church hurts.
How do you preach when you are hurting?
- Be honest with yourself.
- Pray without ceasing.
- Talk to someone you trust.
- Preach consecutive messages.
- Preach the gospel to yourself.
- Don't use the pulpit to vent.
- Take a break from preaching.
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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. |
| 0:27.5 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about preaching hurt. |
| 0:38.5 | What do you do when you have to preach hurt? |
| 0:48.5 | It has been well said that you should preach to broken hearts for there is one in every pew. |
| 0:51.2 | That's a true saying. |
| 0:57.8 | I don't know who to attribute it to, but whoever originally said it is right on. |
| 1:17.6 | If you preach to broken hearts, you will never go without a hearing because no matter the size of the room or the size of the congregation, you will inevitably be preaching to those who have broken hearts. It's an inevitable reality of the fallen world that we live in. |
| 1:23.6 | It is the reality that we are called to preach to with the hope of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:32.0 | But what should the preacher do when the broken heart is in the pulpit, not in the pew? |
| 1:41.5 | What are you to do when the broken heart is not found among those who hear the preaching |
| 1:51.1 | but is found within the one who does the preaching there are times you know what it's like |
| 2:00.0 | that there are times when you go to the pulpit with great joy. |
| 2:05.9 | You've been eager all week to work on your text and get to the pulpit. |
| 2:14.6 | There are those of you listening who know what it is to not be able to sleep on the |
| 2:20.3 | weekend. This has been my dilemma for over 30 years of pastoral ministry. I find it hard to sleep |
| 2:26.7 | on the weekend. It's like pregame time, right? There is just this eagerness to get to the pulpit, to preach the word of God to the people of God. |
| 2:42.5 | You know what it is to have that time when you just can't wait to stand in the pulpit. |
| 2:48.8 | And then when you get in the pulpit you can barely stand it feels |
| 2:52.3 | like you are going to float away by the holy spirits upholding strengthening and undergirding |
| 3:01.9 | your preaching those are wonderful times but that will not be your reality all the time there will be times |
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