How Good Are the Sermons You Preach to Yourself?
Even if you’ll never preach a single sermon in your entire life, you should still know what good preaching is. And not just so you can spot (and avoid) bad preaching; not even so you can seek out good preaching. You need to understand what makes a good sermon because every time you interpret the Bible, practically speaking, you’re preaching the Bible to yourself.
How good are your self-sermons?
Much of the process of preparing a sermon is indistinguishable from the process of simply reading the Bible and applying it to your life. You may not have to pay attention to your gestures and vocal projection as a preacher does, but you will have to do almost everything else. Faithful Christians should give attention even to the rhetorical structure of their arguments about a passage—in evangelistic discussions, in small-group Bible studies, even in Facebook comments.
Much of the process of preparing a sermon is indistinguishable from the process of simply reading the Bible and applying it to your life. You may not have to pay attention to your gestures and vocal projection as a preacher does, but you will have to do almost everything else. Faithful Christians should give attention even to the rhetorical structure of their arguments about a passage—in evangelistic discussions, in small-group Bible studies, even in Facebook comments.
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