Preacher What of your preaching?

The Preacher and his message

We don't need boring preachers. There is nothing worse than wasting the precious times of others and having nothing to say and knowing it. We don't need you to take up our time. We do need you to hear for the Lord and speak with boldness, conviction and understanding and give us something to go home with.

Don't add to scripture by giving your view or take away from scripture by giving it a different meaning. Scripture can explain itself and does, when taught in context. Keep the text within its context. If you're preaching from the New Testament letters stick to what the letters are saying. They were written as letters and to add another subject to whats originally given is to do injustice to the letter itself. Don't take one verse and talk about something entirely different rather use all the verses around the text to explain your chosen verse.

What then makes a preacher a good preacher. I would say a good preacher is more than a good preacher for he is first a good servant  and then he is a good orator and then he is a good friend of sinners. Here are 10 other qualities of a good preacher.

1. He has an anointing on his ministry that breaks the yoke. People don't get bored when he speaks.
2. The spirit of God rests upon him.
3. He can preach the word clearly and convincingly.
4. He can expound the scriptures with clarity and conviction.
5. He can keep to the subject and expound it well so that the truth of the entire text and passage is revealed in his message.
6. He can preach with an understanding of the background of the text and so preach doctrine.
7. He can reveal Jesus from the volume of the book.
8. He can speak without conforming, watering down, or adapting the text to make it acceptable to those present.
9. He can deliver the text as a prince in the pulpit.
10. He can so leave the congregation knowing that they have seen Jesus.