5 Principles for Better Devotionals

Doctrine and Devotion

Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Joe and Jimmy are hanging out in the cigar shop talking about how to best prepare to lead a group of people in "devotions." Christians are often asked to lead a group in a "devotional," meaning, share something good from the word of God for those in attendance. But how can we do it well? The guys offer five pieces of advice to lead a group in better devotionals. And the guys introduce the Doctrine and Devotion "RANSOM" Bible Study Method. You can expect more on that in the future. Plus, why do fit people stretch so much in public, and why do people steal material from famous, current preachers?

Five Principles to Help You Prepare and Lead a Devotional Talk

1. Always Be in the Word
2. Distill the Main idea
3. Address Points of Application (to your life, and then to others)
4. Keep it Brief
5. Be Confident and Don't Apologize

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. devotion, a podcast exploring Christian life. No.
0:18.0	Christian faith and practice.
0:20.0	Faith and practice, I don't remember, it doesn't matter.
0:21.0	And life and life.
0:22.0	From where, from what? We talk about stuff. I don't remember it doesn't matter my life in life it just from where from
0:23.7	from what about stuff from a what generally from a reformed Baptist
0:26.7	good job good job sometimes just our opinions though yep just some of the things we
0:29.7	think about and and today it's not necessarily coming out of a reform about.
0:34.0	And so you are who?
0:36.0	What?
0:37.0	Who are you?
0:38.0	I'm Joe Thorne. I am the lead pastor and author of five volumes.
0:41.0	No, don't say volumes.
0:42.0	Global speaker and globe trotting a preacher.
0:47.4	Actually yeah you can say that I'm sorry. All around Bigwig. Joe
0:52.4	John. Joe Thorne. League Pastor Redeemer Fellowship. What's up? Hey everybody.
0:55.8	And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Executive Pastor at Redeemer Fellowship. All right, well, so yeah, I'm just the
1:02.4	short angry guy that's written five tiny books that if you
1:06.7	tape them altogether it might be as thick as a copy of table talk magazine by Ligonier.
1:13.4	Wow, Joe, why, come on, have more confidence.
1:16.4	Yeah, I have confidence in the word.
1:18.4	I would never talk to you about that.
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