Preachers are communicators. There is more to say about preaching, but it could be said fairly that contemporary preaching is often cursed with individuals so committed to a certain style of preaching that they fail to communicate. The ministry of the word is not the attempt to mirror a style or react against a style, rather it is to make the teaching of the text plain.
Does anyone else need to rethink their style of communication?
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After attending church for nearly 40 years, mainly baptist churches I have started to see a change in the way most pastors preach from the pulpit.
It seems instead of preaching at or to people. Pastors tend to justify a decision they made from pulpit regarding the everyday on going's of the church. Example, some members think that I have time to talk to everyone after church and when I walk right past them and don't speak to them after church they get upset. Then the pastor gives his explantion from the pulpit that he had something more important to do.
Pastor's should preach straight from the word of God instead of justifying what or why they did something. Let the word of God do the justifying, not the pastor. If the pastor feels he has offended someone let him take it up with that person, not take it up with the whole church for everyone to hear. It turns the message into a gripe and complain sermon instead of a message from God.
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