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An Exercise for Preachers by Steve Mathewson
Let me share a great exercise for preachers. I recently stumbled across it while preparing a five-year ministry plan for the church I serve.
The exercise is to prepare a one-paragraph philosophy of preaching statement. I did this recently as part of writing a larger ‘philosophy of ministry’ statement. Our church needed a statement like this to clarify our identity and our approach to doing ministry. When I prepared the paragraph on preaching, it forced me to revisit basic questions about the ministry of the Word. Why do I preach? How do I preach? What do I preach? Yes, I’ve wrestled with those questions before, and I’ve settled on the answers. But thinking through them again renewed my focus and my passion for preaching Scripture.
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