Monday, January 29, 2007

Preaching Style

People often ask about preaching style. Are your messages topical (using a variety of verses to discuss a topic) or exegetical (teaching verse by verse through one passage)? Are your messages more point-driven or more of a narrative? Do you provide fill-in-the-blank notes with your key points or blank paper or nothing at all for notetaking? Well, at LCC we do it the biblical way :-) I'm kidding of course...there's no mandate in Scripture about these things. So when people ask, I usually say I try to mix it up...but in reality I am more often topical, almost always providing notes and usually very multi-point-driven.

So I'm branching out a little with our series beginning this Sunday...HEROES. Each week we are going to cover a HERO from the Bible. I am going with a more narrative style, with only a big blank space for notes in the bulletin, and with only one main point each week. Hopefully everyone will learn from it, but I'm sure some will be lost without the fill-in-the-blanks!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The promos for Heroes have been great. It definitely makes me want to hide some of our past videos...we've come a long way. Looking forward to the new series. I'm sure I will miss the fill-in-the-blanks though.