“When a pastor goes, ‘I don’t know what to preach this week,’ it tells me two things. One, you’re not having a quiet time.”
“If you preach application, life application, the word becomes flesh.”
“Why aren’t more sermons built around application? Well, in seminary, we’re often taught that people are going to make the necessary connections themselves. They don’t.”
“Life change or behavioral preaching takes far more time and effort to prepare. And a lot of times we run out of preparation. It’s pretty easy to just preach through a book, look up from the commentaries and see what they say.”
“We have 95% interpretation, 5% application at the end, and we think we’re preaching. What I would say is: Reverse that.”
“Paul is not my model for preaching. Jesus is.”
“So really what I do every week is preach for repentance.”
“Changing minds is not easy. That’s why you’re worn out when you finish preaching. You’ve been in a battle.”
“The deepest kind of preaching is preaching for repentance. Life application is not shallow preaching. It’s deeper than all those other kinds that they think are deep…What’s shallow? Here’s what’s shallow: Teaching doctrine without applying it for life change.”
“You have to enlighten the mind. You have to engage the emotions. You have to challenge the will. I say it again, the kind of preaching that changes has to have all three of these.”
“Every single sermon has to come down to two words: Will you?”
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Acts 13:36
1 Corinthians 2:13
1 Corinthians 14:3
Isaiah 55:11
James 1:19-27
Mark 4:33
Philippians 2
Romans 12:2
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Titus 3:3
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