Preaching in the Pulpit at the Summer Fellowship Conference
Preaching in the Pulpit at the Summer Fellowship Conference
Yes what it is to be able to preach a sermon from a pulpit to your peers! One of the joys and benefits of attending the Summer Conference is going through Heath Pucel's expository preaching class called "Keep Your Finger in the Text".
During the week Heath assigns the evangelists a couple of texts from which to prepare a sermon. Each evangelist prepares and preaches his sermon to the other evangelists to be critiqued by them.
This is wonderfully beneficially to your minister to be subjected to critique by your peers whom you know. They are is an extra layer(s) of scrutiny and pressure that you don't have when preaching in the open air.
Plus you have the opportunity to critique everyone else's sermons. In that process you learn to apply Heath's teachings from a different angle.
The entire process does create an environment to help each evangelist become a better preacher.
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The depth of the Evangelist as a Minister
Where can you purchase tracts & signs?
George Whitefield Academy Take the challenge and join the George Whitefield Preaching Academy (GWPA)! A two-year certificate program specifically designed to prepare and mobilize the next generation of George Whitefield’s through faithful expository open-air preaching. In the George Whitefield Preaching Academy, you will: • Receive expert instruction from seasoned preachers. • Participate in six focused workshops designed for open-air preachers. • Demonstrate progress in faithfully interpreting, applying, and preaching God’s word through interactive text and preaching assignments. • Engage in reading the wisdom of those who have gone before us through discussion groups. • Discover ways to develop organization, clarity, and simplicity as you create practical, persuasive, and powerful sermons. • Make a life-long commitment to expository preaching in the open air.
What is the benefit to make the commitment to be vocational evangelist?
Video Teaching 6 week class: Born Again: The Evangelical Theology of Conversion in John Wesley and George Whitefield (this class discusses Whitefield)
Why men don't go full-time?
Every step we take towards full-time evangelism leads us to a more intimate relationship with the Lord and in turn, we reap the rewards by receiving love, joy, hope, patience and kindness. Preaching full-time rather than just at the weekends, helps us to get to know the Lord better and helps those that hear you preach the Gospel to know the Lord better too. There are so many wonderful benefits to becoming a full time evangelist, the fellowship, the experience of ministering to the people and the closeness you will feel to the Lord as you preach. Full-time evangelism makes dealing with resistance you face much easier. Listen to my video as I explain the simple truth about why being full time is so much more beneficial than preaching part-time. I hope it will inspire you as it inspires me each and every time I'm out there with the Lord standing right beside me.
All too often I meet people who tell me that they are interested in becoming an evangelist...one day. But why wait until you're older to regret doing something you wished you would have done when you were younger? Time waits for no man. If the lord is calling to you right here, right now, you must heed that call and follow the path to full-time evangelism. Don't let everyday obstacles get in your way. The Lord has equipped you with all that you need, particularly if you have youth on your side. He has given you the energy and the focus that you need to spread the word. Listen to my video as I explain the importance of not waiting, of facing the obstacles that stand in your way and taking the leap of faith that you need to step into full-time evangelism.
1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root to all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows". Today in America, it can be seen that the stature of a man's wealth seems far more important than the stature of a man's righteousness. Once in that trap of earning money and being dazzled by the material things it can buy you, it's hard to keep faith, stand back and look at where life is taking you. Becoming a full time evangelist can be a daunting prospect when faced with the problem of how to earn money whilst preaching the Gospel. The answer lies in fundraising. Listen to Bill Adams speak about why raising money is best and better understand how becoming a full time evangelist can be achieved.
The GWP is designed to create a daily, consistent and dependable ministry in an area vs. a sporadic, inconsistent, undependable ministry. What this means is that a GWP evangelist commits to preach daily in consistent locations so the Word can saturate more completely a group of people. A location is a college campus, a sports venue, a local park or a downtown area. In each of these areas there should be a consistent group of people or events that attract people. The GWP evangelist would be at each location on a consistent basis to saturate the hearers with the Word and to be available to minister to the people personally. The opposite perspective for an evangelist is to wake up every day, decide where or if to go and for what length of time. This sporadic, inconsistent and undependable strategy doesn’t saturate an area with the Gospel, prohibits personal ministry and ultimately limits the depth of the work of the Word in an area. The more consistent work of the GWP evangelist leads to a more in-depth and penetrating ministry of the Word. So again, the GWP Program is designed for the evangelist to have a daily, consistent and dependable ministry in an area to saturate it with the Gospel, to be available for personal ministry and for the Word to penetrate it deeply with the possibility of bringing a transformation of the area.
