Apprentice

Colin Adams at Unashamed Workman has a short helpful post up about how he prepares a sermon. Like Colin, I prefer to type up a full manuscript. I fear being lost for words and it’s nice to have something prepared to fall back on but I do feel free to ad lib and paraphrase. Sticking to close to the script sounds… well… too scripted.

I haven’t preached much yet so my methods are still forming but I am very interested in seeing how other people prepare for preaching. My former pastor advised preparing for six to twelve hours for each sermon, which is something I’ve tried to stick to. While coming up with a good illustration can be hard, when you get a good one it really pays off. I think a good illustration, be it an analogy or an actual prop can be very helpful for getting the message across and getting people to remember what the sermon was all about. I know this blog doesn’t have (m)any readers but if you have experience preaching I would be very interested in your comments.