Preaching/Teaching Class

Key Things to Remember When Speaking

It’s Not About You

Don’t Try to Uplift Yourself

Always Give Glory to God

Some Preachers can/will Talk All Day About Themselves

Don’t Be Like that

Paul would Occasionally Talk About Himself, But it was Never to Lift Himself Up

He Bragged on Himself in 2 Corinthians, But He Hated Every Second of it

And it was for a Very Specific Purpose

He Bragged About His Suffering and Hardships to Prove that He was Truly an Apostle and that the People Should Listen to Him

It’s Not About Your Ability

You Don’t have to Be a Good Speaker to Teach or Preach

Moses is the Perfect Example of that

Try to Be Respectful to Those Who are Listening to You

Try Your Best Not to Be Unnecessarily Offensive

If the Truth Makes Them Uncomfortable, That’s One Thing

If Your Language, Dress, Attitude, Posture Makes Them Uncomfortable, that’s Another Thing

Don’t Say or Do Things that You Know will Make People Uncomfortable Simply to Make Them Uncomfortable

If You are Going to Offend People, it Needs to Be for Scriptural Reasons and with a Heart of Gentleness and Humility

Don’t Just Throw Your Lesson Together

If Your Not Prepared, Give Yourself More Time

I’ve had to Change My Lessons Many Times Because I Wasn’t Confident in My Knowledge of a Text

Use Commentaries, Study Bibles, Whatever Resources You can Find to Help You Understand a Text

Be Open-Minded, But Not Gullible

If You Align Perfectly with Everything Someone Says, That’s Probably Not a Good Thing

No One has it All Figured Out

Don’t Trust All of Someone’s Opinions Just Because They’ve Got a Few Good Ones

Don’t Eisegete, Exegete

It’s Very Easy to have Something We Really Want to Teach/Talk About and Misuse a Text in Order to Make that Point

That’s Why Most of My Sermons are Simply Taking a Text and Working Through it

I’ve Taught So Many Things that Aren’t True to the Scriptures in the Past Because I Used Whatever Scriptures I Could Find that Seemed to Communicate My Point I Wanted to Get Across

Don’t Try to Fit Everything You Know into One Lesson

I’ve Struggled with this

When You Study Something for a Long Time, it’s Tempting to Want to Talk About Everything

Hit the Main Points

Make it as Simple as You can Without Sacrificing Truth

Make Sure to Be Encouraging (Give Courage)

Don’t Scare Them Away

Let Them Know that They are Fully Capable of Doing this

Look at Passages Where Jesus, His Apostles, and Others are Preaching/Teaching

Learn From Their Demeanor and Material