Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.
Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.
Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.
Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.
I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.