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HIGH IMPACT PREACNING: MOVING FROM PREACHING SERMONS TO SERMONS THAT PREACH

HIGH IMPACT PREACNING: MOVING FROM PREACHING SERMONS TO SERMONS THAT PREACH. Leslie N. Pollard, Ph.D., D.Min., M.Div., MBA Vice President for Community Development and Diversity Loma Linda Adventist Health Sciences Center. About the Speaker. Born in New Orleans, LA

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HIGH IMPACT PREACNING: MOVING FROM PREACHING SERMONS TO SERMONS THAT PREACH

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  1. HIGH IMPACT PREACNING:MOVING FROM PREACHING SERMONS TO SERMONS THAT PREACH Leslie N. Pollard, Ph.D., D.Min., M.Div., MBA Vice President for Community Development and Diversity Loma Linda Adventist Health Sciences Center

  2. About the Speaker • Born in New Orleans, LA • Education: B.A., Oakwood College (1978), Andrews University, Claremont School of Theology, LaSierra University • Master of Divinity, Andrews University, 1983 • Doctor of Ministry (Preaching and Worship), 1992 • Master of Business Administration, Leadership/Management (2004), LaSierra University • Doctor of Philosophy, New Testament Language and Literature, “Remnant Terminology in the Apocalypse” (May 2007) • Ordained Minister • Pastor, Administrator, Author, Trainer, NT Researcher, Preaching/Worship Professor, Father, Brother, Husband, • Married for 28 years—Prudence, two daughters, Kristin and Karin

  3. The Case for SDA Elders’ Training in Preaching Ministry • Statistical Case: 2006 SDA Yearbook • NAD 1,030,361 Members • 5,118 Churches in 58 Conferences • Approximately 4,850 Full-time pastors • Absence of 1 to 1 Pastor-to-Church ratio NAD Church Ministries est. that on any given Sabbath, 50% of SDA Pulpits occupied by lay preachers

  4. The Case for SDA Elders’ Training in Preaching Ministry • Historical Case • Early Christian Movement was populated with a galaxy of luminous lay preachers—Peter, James, John, etc.--Jesus Christ • Early Adventist luminaries were lay preachers-William Miller, Hiram Edson, Joseph Bates, James White, Ellen G. White,

  5. The Case for SDA Elders’ Training in Preaching Ministry • Theological Case • Lay preaching exercises discipleship • Lay preaching exposes the community of faith to a variety of Christian pilgrimages • Lay preaching allows general members to become shapers and sharers of the faith • Lay preaching expands the language of the church • Lay preaching becomes a part of community building.

  6. Session Objectives • To reflect on preaching from an audience-sensitive perspective • To “practicalize” the process of sermon development from conception to delivery • To answer specific questions on the ministry of preaching

  7. 7 Indicators of Effective Preaching • A high degree of interactivity between preacher and listener (reading cultural codes) • Sustained audience attentiveness • Heightened spiritual dependence on the part of the preacher • Greater spiritual spontaneity • Increased authenticity-barrier free • Self-evident continuity between text and proclamation • Listener attestation of decisional transformation

  8. High Impact Preaching requires • Psychic/Cognitive Preparation • Manual Preparation • Relationship Connectedness

  9. “The preaching of the word of God, is the word of God.” Martin Luther Therefore, as the word of God, sermons are living entities (Heb 4:11) A sermon is biblical when it is controlled, guided, and shaped by the meaning of the original text. High-impact preaching is a full-life activity Sermonizing and preaching matures across time. Preaching impact is an anointed outcome Movement from text to manuscript to delivery is a linear, sequential process What Preachers Ought to Know and Accept About Preaching

  10. How To Prepare a Sermon:From Conception to Delivery • 1. Choose the Key Text--p.48 • 2. Outline the structure of the Text/Passage • 3. Interpret the Key Text, p. 55 • 4. Analyze the narrative movement, argument, poetic shape, etc. of the key text in order to assess its impact on first hearers • 5. Arrange the text for preaching p 68

  11. The Sermon from Conception to Delivery • 7. Researching the Sermon, • Place divisions/moves on separate sheets of paper. Utilize aids, Commentaries, Academic and Homiletical. I consult EGW after research. • 8. Refine the structure • 9. Chose the intro, illustrations, conclusion • 10. Write the sermon manuscript-Oral Style Practice prior to delivery

  12. Dangers of Extemporaneous Preaching • The threat of disorganization • A decrease in rhetorical precision • The danger of rambling • The danger of drifting toward chattiness • The danger of unintended lengthiness • The danger of distracting histrionics • Loss of future utility

  13. Memorize your opening sentence Know your introduction Memorize your outline Know the two or three main points of your main moves Know the opening and final sentence of the conclusion Such familiarity breeds confidence. Confidence enhances persuasion. Persuasion begets converts. High Impact Preaching: Secrets

  14. Activity-Design a strategy for the following passage • 1 Sam 17:45-48 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.” 48 Then David ran and hasted to meet him.

  15. Activity-Design a strategy for the following passage • Matthew 28:2-6 “And behold, there was a great earthquake: for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and come and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. (3) His countenance was like lightning and his clothing as white as snow. (4)And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men. (5)But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. ‘He is not here; for He is risen, as He said, ‘Come see the place where the Lord lay.’”

  16. 6 reasons sermons die at delivery. . . • “1. Sermons often contain too many ideas • “2. Sermons have too much analysis and too little answer • “3. Sermons are too formal and impersonal • “4. Preachers assume the hearer has more theological and biblical knowledge and understanding than he or she does. • “5. Sermons are too propositional and have too few illustrations and often the illustrations are too literary and not helpful. • “6. Too many sermons simply reach a dead end and give no guidance to commitment and action.” Dr Reuel Howe

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