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Category Archives: Teaching/Preaching

Is Preaching Extra-Biblical?

It depends on how you define "preaching" doesn't it? If we mean "announcing the good news" to those who need to hear it or "communicating the Word" to one another within the body of Christ, so that everyone can be equipped for the work of ministry, then I would say that we're on solid [...]

¶ Posted 16 April 2007 § ‡ Comments (2) °

The problem with preaching

Yesterday, I ran across an article by a New Zealand house church planter named David Allis. In his introduction, he says,
I am very cautious about questioning something that has been a large part of Christian history—yet I have numerous questions about preaching that I believe must be considered. These questions have arisen after spending years [...]

¶ Posted 10 April 2007 § ‡ Comments (3) °

Translating Greek into English

If you simply search the New Testament for the word “preach” (using the wildcard * for all variants) at BibleGateway, you will get the following hits in order of frequency:
* New Living Translation (NLT): 150 hits
* King James Version (KJV): 134 hits
* New International Version (NIV): 114 hits
* New American Standard Bible (NASB): 109 hits
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¶ Posted 08 April 2007 § Ministry ‡ Comments (0) °

So what does it mean to “preach” ?

About a year ago, I attended a Reformed evangelical conference in South Wales on various issues facing the church. A local church pastor spoke on the subject of pulpit preaching, saying that it was the ONLY means by which people could come to faith in Christ. He insisted that it was unbiblical to use reason, [...]

¶ Posted 04 April 2007 § Ministry ‡ Comments (3) °

Preaching: Sacred Cow or Scriptural Calling?

I've been thinking about the subject of "preaching" over the past few months. Among evangelical Christians, it's almost universally accepted as the apex of our corporate gatherings. If a congregation of believers gathered on Sunday morning and there was no sermon, there would be a lot of questions, accusations, suspicions, doubts, and raised eyebrows concerning [...]