teaching preaching teams source: ccn seminar, john ortberg, , jan. 2002 [email protected]
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Teaching Preaching Teams
Source: CCN seminar, John Ortberg, www.ccnonline.net , Jan. 2002
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Major Issues Impacting Preaching and Congregational Life
1. Pastoral exhaustion
2. Abbreviated tenure
3. Succession issues
4. Vulnerability of the pastor as a human being
5. Subjection of the congregation to an unbalanced diet
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How to address?
By making preaching a less solitary and individualistic enterprise
Bring to bear the gifts of the whole body of Christ on the preaching event
Not just worship or congregational life
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Out of the cubicle!
“Modern” preaching as a solitary enterprise
“Postmodern” preaching as from community to community
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Encouraging Community Preaching
Preaching “teams” …
Utilize spiritual gifts of knowledge, wisdom, teaching
Take advantage of life experience, expertise, and research focus
Create “recognition” in preparers and credibility in hearers
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3 Ways to Teach Preaching Teams
1. Classroom
Low-structure before and during meetings
Intentional half- or whole-day events in church life
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3 Ways to Teach Preaching Teams
2. Coaching
Utilizes principles from other settings and customizes
Can be high-structure engineered or spontaneous-organic
Seminars (attend, import, host)
Retreats
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3 Ways to Teach Preaching Teams
3. Mentoring
Relationship-based
Ebbs and flows based on teachability and intensity of situation
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A Jump-Start Tip …
Most churches have a “ringer” (potential) preacher
Spend early bulk of time with this individual
Their progress will model the way for others to follow
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Then …
Think in terms of planning 6-12 months worth of preaching
Connected to congregational mission
Series generally 2-5 weeks Allows for depth in research Avoids Monday a.m. panic
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Where to begin in forming a team
1. Collect 3-6 sharp, articulate thinkers, readers, and speakers from the congregation.
Don’t neglect introverts!
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Where to begin
2. Convene a half-day brainstorming event.
Pre-orient participants
Ask each to bring 2-3 general series ideas connected to perceived personal, community, or congregational needs
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Where to begin
3. Pick and parse the can’t miss series.
File the (not yet ripe) “good ideas”
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Where to begin
4. Assign series research to invested persons.
Keep material collection folders on each series
And perhaps a single sermon to protégés
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1. Start by developing the whole series.
Plan start dates and publicize titles/texts to allow invitation opportunities for attenders.
Hint: start a series on Easter
Provides avenue for congregation input and a planning window for inviting and attending
Asks: “what would you like to hear preached?”
Once you get to a single series …
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2. Clarify the big idea of the message.
Craddock: “No one has a right to points who does not have a point.” … which is why preaching is
always immersed in prayer!
Focus: what it says
Function: what it does
Then, once you get to the individual sermon …
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Focus on beginning and endings.
Sermon introduction not an attention grabber, but overture Answers the question, “Why is it
urgently important to talk about what we’re about to talk about?”
What are costs/benefits re: topic?
Pay more attention to the conclusion than the intro! End with, “Where is Jesus in all
of this?”
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3. Do the research.
Part of “loving the Lord your God with all your mind.”
Collect research from team They have been looking out
for ideas since the retreat Ask especially for metaphors
and stories
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4 Types of Research Needed
1. Research the text God’s will
2. Research life culture, local and global
3. Research myself (as a Christian) What is God doing in my life now?
Caution: don’t let the sermon function as personal therapy
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4 Types of Research Needed
4. Research your congregation.
What’s everyone here talking about?
What sins do folk here struggle with?
How will different people here hear this message? (age, life situation, journey)
Pick 5
What are people’s longings and hopes?
Where does the church need to go & how will this message help?
God
Self
Congregation
Culture
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God
Culture
Congregation
Self
bc
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a. Is this what God is calling me to preach?
b. What’s my relationship with this church?
c. How does our church engage its local culture?
d. In what ways can our culture be redeemed?
e. Is God present in our congregation?
f. How am I engaged within our culture?
a
The Preaching Diamond
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4. Begin writing “moves.”
Balance your own “research or speaking” preference
Identify the structure I’m going to teach on (“moves”) Not “points” but flow and end of story
Reading short stories What objections would I face at each turn of the
sermon?
Understand behavior change happens through example, not exhortation And not through “ought, must, and should”
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Telling stories that connect
Include ample (1/3) dialogue within any story
The drama is in the story details “the best story tellers turn ears into eyes”
Tell the story (active voice) instead of telling about the story (passive)
Use the character’s voice instead of the reporter’s voice
Capitalizes on our love of eavesdropping and overhearing
Make no character > 97% good or evil believability issues
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5. Hack the baby down to size!
Editing feels like amputation!
Don’t fall to temptation to use superfluous stories simply because they’re good stories Save for later; you’ll need it!
Imagine what it would look like for people to follow the message, and include only material that will contribute toward that end
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6. Structure and practice delivery.
Use the mirror and the woods
“Let’s go to the videotape.” Best way to get rid of invisible
annoying habits
Single biggest delivery problem: lack of energy, passion
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Assessing delivery
S.H.A.P.E.S. Simplicity – clear about the point Humor – finesse and indirection Authenticity – preaching to myself Passion – emotional intensity,
courage Energy -- urgency Spontaneity – sensitivity to H.S., jazz
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7. Make room for evaluation.
Watch game film The issue is not gaining but keeping
the hearer Mistake: “louder is not profounder”
Utilize your team and ask them to respond with discernment, honesty, and love Address research, structure, delivery
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The criteria for assessing effective preaching …
1. What do people now understand? mind
2. What do people now do as a result of this message?
will
3. What do people now feel? heart (… the most difficult)
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The Goal
“Our goal is not to get people all the way through the Bible, but to get the Bible all the way through the people.”
Good preaching transforms people who transform people
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Teaching Preaching Teams
Dr. John P. Chandler
The Ray and Ann Spence Network for Congregational Leadership
www.rasnet.org
[email protected] Copy Right John P. Chandler, 2002