What do you do when you loose your notes before you preach. You just preach: Eyeball to Eyeball Five tips for preaching without notes. An article by Steve Mathewson Here are some strategies to help you as you attempt to preach in a way which I believe is most beneficial for 90% of pastors. Try it. It is probably better than what you are doing now. see also www.disciplemaking.net
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Here is a good summary of the need of Extemporary preaching from Exiled Preacher. George Whitefield Here are some thoughts on preaching without notes. I started to preach in this way many years ago for a number of reasons. First, I tend to gesticulate a bit while preaching. Once I knocked my notes out of the pulpit and had to retrieve them mid-sermon, which was a bit embarrassing. Second, I sometimes used to find a new vein of thought opening up while preaching. I would go with this, but run ahead of my notes. When the moment of inspiration dried up, I
Great article on the orality of preaching and the distinction from the literary approach. I have found that I preach expositionally so much better when I don’t take notes into the pulpit, but have not been able to accomplish that on a consistent basis. I think that this article helps on understand how we can prepare in the public world or orality (where we will be on Sunday mornings in our preaching) instead of the privacy of literacy. I think we should affirm expository/extemporaneous preaching where the point of the text is the point of the sermon but the wording is created
I understand that preaching for all of us preachers is personal and something we all desire to improve on with God grace and calling. Michael Gerson’s recent article, What the Teleprompter Teaches, on President Obama’s use teleprompters, and well-crafted words can teach us important lessons. Gerson argues that teleprompters have increased a President’s disciplined thought and communication. Josh Harris says preachers should learn from this and pursue a more disciplined approach to communicating Scripture. Writing is very important for a preacher of the Gospel. Great Writing hones our preaching. We need to spend time in the study reading and writing
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