What to Do When You Bomb
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Joe and Jimmy discuss how their workshop at Legacy Chicago went. Not so good. How do Jimmy and Joe evaluate themselves and their teaching? What does it look like to go back to the drawing board after a failure? The guys offer ten points of action and reflection for those who bomb and are ready to learn from their mistakes. Plus, we include a photo of the dude who fell asleep in our workshop. Gotacha, sucka!
Also, Adam Kareus wrote two articles for Doctrine and Devotion you will want to check out: I Just Bombed My Sermon, and My Pastor Just Bombed a Sermon.
10 Points of Reflection After You Bomb
1. Do not despair
2. Do not get defensive
3. Get feedback
4. Was I clear?
5. Was I organized?
6. Was I persuasive?
7. Was I dull?
8. Was I practical?
9. Did the audience know the stakes?
10. How could I have been more dependent on God in preparation and delivery?
For all the show notes and links go to
www.doctrineanddevotion.com/podcast/bomb
Transcript
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, a podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a Reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead |
| 0:21.0 | pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles Illinois. |
| 0:23.4 | And I'm Executive Pastor. |
| 0:24.4 | Wait, I'm Jimmy Fowler, the Executive Pastor at Redeemer Fellowship. |
| 0:27.3 | Oh, you could just say I'm the Executive Pastor, aka Faupho, aka Jimmy J.J. You can say whatever you want. you can say whatever you want. |
| 0:33.2 | I can say whatever I want. |
| 0:34.2 | You're the executive pastor. |
| 0:35.2 | You can say like, my podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | Your executive. |
| 0:37.8 | Executive. |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.8 | So, okay, so when we're recording this, um, later this week, we will both be leaving. |
| 0:45.8 | No, no, only you'll be leaving. |
| 0:47.5 | Oh, I'm leaving. |
| 0:48.5 | My family's leaving me. |
| 0:50.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:51.9 | What happened? |
| 0:52.5 | Hey guys, hey guys, please spray guys. |
| 0:54.0 | No Michelle, the kids, they're heading up to Canada. |
| 0:57.0 | Every year, I give my mother-in-law a choice. |
| 1:00.0 | I say, they either come up for four weeks during the summer or we come up for one week |
| 1:05.5 | at Christmas so you pick and she always picks four weeks of the summer so she |
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