HELPS FOR AFTER THE SERMON: QUESTIONS TO ASK OTHERS AND TO ASK YOURSELF Here are some helps for *after* the sermon. How can you hear the Word and exit with profitableness? Here are some pastoral helps and ideas to exit with intentionality, focus, deliberateness, sermon-application for your own heart and for others. 1. QUESTIONS to ask others (how do we talk with others?) #1) how did that sermon challenge you? #2) what do you need to change in your life because of that sermon? #3) what did you learn from that text? #4) how did God instruct your heart about His own character? #5) what did God show you about yourself in this sermon/text? #6) what did God show you about Christ & the gospel tonight?
Thomas Gouge admonished, “Had you ever tasted of the sweetness of this duty of Divine Meditation, you would finde little time for vain talk, and idle discourses, especially upon the Lords day.” And: 2. QUESTIONS to ask myself after I hear a sermon Questions to ask yourself after you
PREACHING DISPLAYS PASTORAL LOVE. Geoffrey R. Kirkland Christ Fellowship Bible Church (St Louis, MO) CFBCSTL.org WHY AND HOW? 1. it is the best way to feed God’s people. The minister of the gospel who faithfully expounds the Word of the living God week by week provides the best diet, the greatest nourishment, the healthiest intake of divine blessing for the people of God. No greater pastoral way of shepherding God’s precious people exists! Feeding the flock of God necessitates a healthy diet of hearing from God through His Word. The best way to nourish God’s people, to strengthen them for Christian living, to motivate them for holiness, and to gladden them in the Triune God is to relentlessly preach the Word of God! 2. it allows people to hear from God their Father. Every believer has been brought into the family of God. Amazingly and divinely, it consists fully in the work of God. He has brought dead sinners to life and has transferred them into His very own Kingdom. Further