Today’s guest post comes to us from Sterling Edwards for the North American Mission Board.
There are many aspects of preaching that are so important and so vital to our ministry. Every time that we get up to preach we are aware of the fact that:
- There are people who hear us every week and there are people who have come for the first time who may never come back again sitting in the same room.
- There are people who are celebrating and there are people who are hurting sitting together.
- There are people who have tremendous biblical knowledge and no biblical knowledge sitting within a few feet of one another.
- No two Sundays are exactly the same.
Regardless of the text that we are preaching, each Pastor has to navigate through these factors. The complexity of these circumstances is what often has prompted me to get my wife’s feedback. But, over the years, I have found that seeking my wife’s feedback was not the only way or the best way for me to honestly evaluate my sermons.
Here are five questions that I have used to help me effectively evaluate a sermon:
1. Was the sermon true to the text I was preaching? We want to proclaim what the Bible passage is communicating. Yet, there are times when we may be tempted to angle a particular verse to help us make a particular point that is not found in the Bible verse. When we preach for our own purposes or for our own agenda, we will always feel incomplete at the conclusion of a sermon.
2. Was the sermon true in my life? One of the surest ways to feel insecure about the sermon that we have just preached is to try and convey a Truth from God’s Word that does not match up with the present realities of our own lives.
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Your partner in ministry,
Nelson
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