#167 | The Hard Work of Preaching
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The On Preaching podcast, the podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better.
In this episode of the podcast, H.B. discusses the hard work of preaching. Effective preaching is text-driven, has a clear message, and involves hard work.
Many congregations feel their pastors only work on Sunday, if then. That should not be the case. We should strive to give God our best in sermon preparation and delivery (2 Timothy 2:15).
What does the hard work of preaching involve?
- The hard work of careful reading.
- The hard work of believing prayer.
- The hard work of critical thinking.
- The hard work of creative writing.
- The hard work of pastoral leadership.
For contact, information, or resources, visit hbcharlesjr.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the on preaching podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better good day and thanks for listening to the podcast in this episode i want to talk to you |
| 0:29.2 | about the hard work of preaching when i get to talk about preaching here and there in various places, I often begin with introductory remarks in which I make three points. |
| 0:48.5 | These are the foundational assumptions upon which I discuss the subject of sermon preparation and sermon |
| 0:59.4 | delivering. The first assumption is that biblical preaching, faithful preaching, |
| 1:06.4 | expositional preaching should be, and is is text driven something drives every sermon |
| 1:13.6 | Something is in the driver's seat of every sermon and the goal of preaching should be to let the text of scripture a passage from God word, be in the driver's seat in that sermon. |
| 1:32.4 | Or to say it simply, in this foundational assumption, I am trying to communicate that a priority |
| 1:41.7 | in preaching should be to get the text right. Secondly, I often say |
| 1:48.9 | that preaching should have a clear message. So I'd say that because I want to make it clear |
| 1:56.9 | that preaching should not just be a running commentary or, you know, |
| 2:03.9 | pulpit exegesis or a datadum of all that you have learned about a text over the course |
| 2:09.4 | of that week. |
| 2:10.6 | That exegedical work that you have done to come to a proper understanding of the text |
| 2:16.9 | should be shaped into a clear |
| 2:20.1 | message from God for that congregation to whom you will preach. So to say that preaching should be |
| 2:29.1 | text driven means that you need to get the text right to say that it should have a clear message |
| 2:35.4 | is meant to indicate that you should get the truth across but here's the third |
| 2:42.5 | assumption that I just often say and move on from pretty quickly that I want to linger on for a moment in this episode of the podcast with you today. |
| 2:56.8 | And that is the fact that not only is effective preaching, biblical preaching, faithful preaching, text driven, and has a clear message, but it is also hard work |
| 3:11.7 | It's hard work |
| 3:14.3 | There are preachers |
| 3:16.6 | Who I think are always looking for a shortcut to the pulpit |
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