Episode 3: On Sermon Application

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

If a preacher is doing his job well, then he's not only explaining what a text means, but also applying that meaning to the lives of his hearers. In this episode of Pastors' Talk, Jonathan Leeman sits down with Mark Dever to talk about the difficult task of sermon application.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:07.9	Have we had to talk about the word episode?
0:10.1	You know, you know we did.
0:11.3	Okay.
0:11.8	Yeah.
0:12.7	I referenced the earlier episode.
0:14.0	Go ahead.
0:16.2	Yeah.
0:17.2	They're going to think that's hilarious.
0:19.6	What is Nine Marks?
0:20.6	You're wondering.
0:21.1	Well, it exists to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches.
0:27.7	Learn more at Nine Marks.org.
0:29.8	And we're back with Mark Devere.
0:31.9	Mark Devere.
0:32.8	This time talking about the difficult task of sermon application.
0:40.0	Mark, do most pastors, preachers,
0:45.1	apply their sermons well? Do you sense that guys know how to do that? Easy topic? Why are we talking about this? I'd say mixed. I don't think this is one of the more difficult pastoral skills,
0:48.8	but particularly among guys who agree with us that the Bible is the inerrant word of God and the
0:52.5	main job of the preachers to teach the word, I think they are sometimes weaker at application than they could fairly
0:59.3	easily be. What is application? What is sermon application? Reading a text of scripture,
1:05.5	whether it's a chapter or a verse, and understanding what it says, understanding implications of that that affect our daily lives
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