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 pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles, Illinois.

And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Elder Candidate at Redeemer Fellowship.

So we're still sitting here.

Yep, haven't gone anywhere.

Nope, we just, well you went, I think, to the bathroom or something, because you got up and left. Well no I went and stole a diet coke from the fridge. Oh you took one of Pat's I took one of Pastor Pat's I rumbled around I was like yeah that's Pastor Pat's he likes to share he's always telling us help

yourself help yourself and then he gets none of what he bought and then he gets not enough

is that he's none of it no because we always I know we know he's got a diet coke in there

thanks pastor Pat you're awesome you're so great so I want to know. He's got a diet coke in there. Thanks, Pastor Pat.

You're awesome.

You're so great.

So we were talking about when worship goes bad.

When worship goes bad.

And we talked through the problems inherent with trying to bring in entertainment

as a part as an emphasis in corporate worship.

Yep.

There's a lot of way worship can go bad.

Oh yeah. You know, and what we want to talk about today is when a

or tonight we want to focus in on preaching because let's do it bad preaching that's like the focal point that that's something something that really needs to be done well

I I'm persuaded of that and I think people might go well of course because you're the preacher you wanted to be all about you

but honestly

I do what do you really think people think like that some people think that way she really didn't

understand what preaching of god's word is yeah it's all about me

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