#137 | Simple Preaching
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching Podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preacher faithfully, clearly, and better.
In this episode, H.B. talks simple preaching. The nature of scripture is clear (2 Timothy 3:16). The purpose of preaching is to be understood. Jesus himself modeled simple preaching. Throughout history, strong preachers have been characterized by simple preaching.
How can I practice simple preaching?
- Bible Exposition
- A Single Text
- Proper Interpretation
- A Clear Structure
- A Bid Idea
- A Gospel Focus
- The Target Audience
- Plain Language
- Conversational Style
- Believing Prayer
- Godly Humility
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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. |
| 0:28.2 | Good day and thanks for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about simple preaching. |
| 0:47.4 | Too often, rookie preachers and seasoned preachers fall into the trap of trying to sound, |
| 0:58.4 | trying to be deep, profound, mystical, academic, impressive. |
| 1:05.5 | And in the process, they commit the greatest sin of a communicator. The greatest sin of a communicator is to fail to communicate. |
| 1:12.4 | Preaching when done at its best is simple to understand. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm not meaning that your preaching should be overly simplistic. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm not meaning simplistic preaching in terms of watering down truth or dumbing down the message or playing to the least common denominator. |
| 1:37.2 | But I'm referring to preaching that is understood and understandable. I don't know if there are too many better compliments I can get |
| 1:49.4 | in my preaching than when someone tells me that I was able to understand what you said. |
| 1:58.7 | I don't know if I'm preoccupied with whether or not they agree with what I have to say. |
| 2:04.9 | If I am faithfully preaching the truth, what the hearer does with it is between him and God, right? |
| 2:12.6 | But it is my burden of responsibility to be as clear and as accurate and as understandable as I can in |
| 2:25.8 | preaching strong preaching is simple preaching that's the case that I want to make in this episode of the podcast. Think of the |
| 2:39.4 | reasons why simple preaching matters. First of all, because of the nature of scripture. |
| 2:47.6 | We believe in the perspicuity of scripture. That scripture by its very nature is |
| 2:55.0 | clear. It is understandable. It reveals truth. But not only should we consider this matter of simple preaching significant because of the nature |
| 3:12.0 | of scripture but also because of the purpose of preaching itself in nehemiah chapter |
| 3:18.7 | eight at that great assembly at the water gate we are told that they addressed men and women and all who could |
| 3:28.9 | understand and that they read distinctively from the law of God and gave the sense so that the |
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