Yahweh hears the desires of the humble, so pray to him when you are distressed by the proud.
Preached during the first worship service of Reformed Presbyterian Church Dumaguete as a formally covenanted congregation.
1 Point Preacher
Episode 25
Show Notes:
Context.
There is such a thing as too much information.
You don't need as much context as you think you do.
And it doesn't have to all be in the front of the sermon.
How much context do you need, and when are you going to get into it?
3 Examples of too much, and at the wrong time.
1. The Context Lecture
A "sermon" introducing a biblical book.
When a new book is started, commonly 1 sermon is delivered to introduce the book. But it may not qualify as preaching, because it's just background information.
Teaching about the text, instead of the text.
Do your people need a geography lesson in order to understand the text?
Best type of the introductory sermon: biblical content, but not from the book being introduced.
That period of biblical history is presented—surrounding biblical context. Setting, circumstances, etc.
Or, the biographical introductory sermon.
Example: before starting the Gospel of Mark, preaching 4 sermons on the Gospel genre, plus 2 sermons on the person of Mark.
Often, these background "sermons" don't qualify as preaching. They are not explanations of the text of Scripture. They can lack application. The Gospel is easily left out.
The question is: was all that information necessary for people to understand the book?
Or could the preacher just not wait to take up context as he goes?
2. The Context-only Sermon Introduction/Point
The introduction of the sermon, or the first point of the sermon, will be entirely context.
Look at your text, and look at your time. Sometimes a preacher will preach only one verse, to make time for all the context.
An introduction is supposed to introduce the whole sermon. To fill it with context contradicts that purpose.
Likewise, the first point/move of the sermon being entirely context. Structurally, it's unhelpful. People are listening, and cannot turn back to review the information.
Do you expect your listeners to hold all that context throughout the whole sermon?
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Ecclesiology Series, Sermon 5:
Lord's Supper
Delivered by Nate Sonner
1 Corinthians 11:17–34
"Jesus Christ invites you to feed on his body and blood, so partake in a worthy manner."
1 Point Preacher
Episode 17
Show Notes:
This is a very special episode of 1 Point Preacher.
We discuss an experience that only happens once in a preacher's lifetime: preaching through your first whole book of the Bible.
Now is the rare opportunity to talk about this experience while it's still fresh.
I sit down with Joshua Bagas, pastor of Dumaguete Mission Church, who has just finished preaching through Paul's Letter to the Romans.
. . .
What was it like to preach through Romans? What did you like and dislike?
First chapters: liked it. But at that pace, it would take 2-3 years to finish the book.
The temptation to go to shorter books.
After finishing: fulfilling and satisfying-1 year. Loved it.
Halfway through the book, there was a change of pace and a change of method.
What changes occurred in sermon preparation and delivery?
Sermon Prep:
Like to listen to sermons of John MacArthur and Steve Lawson. So that slow rate of fewer verses was "the right way of preaching."
Learned that more verses is better; by content.
In the beginning: preaching standards multiple-point sermons.
Relying on many cross-references.
Now: 1-point sermons, with very few cross-references.
The people can follow more easily.
Most common feedback: they can understand the text as a whole.
It's easier to remember that way.
Changes around Romans 9.
Unity is very important. There was no unity in the sermons when few verses were preached.
Preaching smaller texts got repetitive. "We get it."
There was a tendency to preach the previous text, shortening the time for the current sermon text.
This was also the first time preachings sequentially week after week.
What were the challenges?
Cannot avoid difficult texts.
No choice but to study more. Look for more resources. Ask for help from people you know.
The challenge of application. Before, just explaining without applying. Preaching without application is not preaching at all.
The thought how how long the whole book would take.
This book is too long. The texts are hard. There was the temptation to change books.
There was a challenge of method.
Before, there was no feedback. The sermons were all explanation. Someone said, "this is not teaching class."
Transitioning from lecturing to preaching: there was positive feedback—conviction. It was to the heart.
"How to make your preaching interesting." It's just a lecture, so add jokes.
Now: no jokes, no fillers.
A common caricature of expository preaching: verse-by-verse, or word-by-word, running commentary. But that's just a lecture, not preaching.
Changing to larger text: the challenge was the exegetical point.
The units of thought are not just small texts.
Somewhere between the whole book and the tiny texts are units to preach.
The challenge of applying the sermon: can the congregation relate?
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1 Point Preacher
Ep. 39.
Show notes:
”A sinner supplied with the gifts of God
"Not only is the preacher saved by God’s grace, and sent by God’s grace, but he is also gifted by God’s grace. A man can be gifted without being called and sent, but a man cannot be called and sent without being gifted. God supplies both the calling and the gifts to fulfil that calling.
"What kind of gifts will be present in the preacher?
a. A strong self-discipline
As the preacher has no ‘boss’, no supervisor, or manager, he is able to do as little or as much as he desires, in whatever areas that interest him. Hence why so many lazy and undisciplined men have been attracted to the ministry. But when a man is truly called of God to the ministry, he is divinely equipped with an ability to organize and discipline himself to do his duty, even when there is no one to check up on him.
—David Murray, ‘How Sermons Work’ loc. 76-89
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