Preaching Don'ts
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Jimmy and Joe sit down to discuss Redeemer Fellowship's Leadership Lab and our top ten "preaching don'ts." What is Leadership Lab, and how do we run it? And what are out top ten "don'ts" for preachers and teachers, and what can we do to fight against them? We've listed them below for people who like lists. Plus, Jimmy's hand gestures, Joe's brow wiping, and "mom's spaghetti."
Preaching Don'ts
1. Don't tell long stories.
2. Don't delay getting to the point.
3. Don't go down rabbit trails.
4. Don't neglect your tone.
5. Don't make yourself the hero.
6. Don't make yourself the fool.
7. Don't repeat yourself in content or mannerisms.
8. Don't comment on your mistakes.
9. Don't make excuses
10. Don't take too long in your introduction.
Help to Overcome These Don'ts
1. Have a critic and a coach.
2. Review your sermons.
3. Practice your sermon.
4. Keep learning.
Transcript
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| 0:19.4 | Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, a podcast that explores Christian faith and practice from a reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne. I am the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles, Illinois. |
| 0:23.9 | And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Ellekanda at Redeemer Fellowship. |
| 0:26.3 | How's it going, Duane? |
| 0:27.9 | Why, why, oh, darn it. |
| 0:30.6 | Oh, I said, Dwayne? |
| 0:32.2 | I meant, I meant to say? I meant to say Jimmy, I'm so sorry. |
| 0:36.0 | Duane is the host of a different podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | I think I got you too confused because... |
| 0:42.0 | Well, because one time were minorities well there's |
| 0:44.6 | that there's that but I got you confused because Duane one time recorded a whole |
| 0:48.5 | podcast and turns out he didn't record it like he did the whole interview and didn't |
| 0:54.0 | record it you know you've used this joke before and we just fit yeah isn't that |
| 0:57.3 | isn't that interesting how you did it again yeah we just I did it again yeah we just |
| 1:01.5 | recorded a whole podcast and how good was it on a scale of one to ten that episode it was a seventeen it might have been our best one ever no no best one ever was Doug Logan okay okay and how do you think it's gonna turn out? |
| 1:13.4 | What happened? |
| 1:15.1 | Stop it. |
| 1:16.1 | Oh, yeah, Jamie screwed it up. |
| 1:17.8 | So now we don't have that podcast. |
| 1:19.3 | Hey everybody, sorry you don't have that awesome podcast that we just did on when leaders fail. |
| 1:24.5 | Yep, we're gonna do it again. We're gonna record again tonight doing that again. |
| 1:27.6 | We're not doing that tonight. I gotta go pick up my kid. That's why we're gonna finish do this one, do the other one and do that one. |
| 1:32.0 | There's not gonna be enough time. No way. No, you know what this is our time. Your kid is not supposed to be on our time. I know, I know, but my wife can't do her job and pick him up. I gotta do it for her this time. She can't do her job. Oh yeah, her job is pick him up I gotta do it for this stuff she can't do her job oh yeah her job yeah |
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