Related Leaders: Mark Driscoll (Session One)
I’m at Riverside Community Church in downtown Peoria today for a one day conference with Mark Driscoll. As normal, when I attend a conference, I’ll take notes here. For the most part, I’ll simply record what he’s saying, and then wrap up with some of my own thoughts later.
- ”our church does a lot of things, but the teaching of the Word is the tip of the spear”
- how you preach will be driven by what you think about the Bible
- there are different ways of teaching (expository, textual, topical) and they’re all fine, but make expository (working through books of the Bible) your bread & butter.
- Questions to ask about preparing a sermon:
- What does the Bible say? (Not what do I want to say?)
- What does it mean? (This is where you start into commentaries…for the first question you meditate, pray, read the Bible, etc.
- What will make this memorable?
- What will the objections be to this truth? (Assume resistance — assume that people will make excuses in their mind.)
- What does this mean to the gospel?
- How is Jesus the Savior? (Say the name of Jesus all the time. Everyone defines “God” in whatever way they want.)
amen on the name of jesus … everyone has a view or idea of God…but is it the God of the Bible…who had a son named Jesus…
epots
February 1, 2008 at 4:47 pm