Show Me How to Preach Evangelistic Sermons
Overview
Drawing on more than 35 years of evangelism experience, seasoned evangelist R. Larry Moyer explains the motivation and principles that enable pastors and speakers to communicate the gospel in a preaching or speaking situation. In 27 helpful chapters, he explains why expository evangelistic preaching is so important, lists different ways to give an evangelistic message, and defines key terms such as sin, belief, and repentance. Complete with memorable tips and two sample messages, Show Me How to Preach Evangelistic Sermons will equip you to preach the gospel with confidence.
Top Highlights
“Evangelists often are so people-oriented that they organize their material around people, not the text. That’s why they often develop a message and then find a text that seems to fit what they are saying. The problem is, often it doesn’t fit, and they therefore impose upon the text a meaning that it does not have. Expository evangelistic speaking starts with the text and develops the message around that text. Like the motor of a car, it’s the text that drives everything.” (Page 31)
“When we talk about expository speaking, we are talking about the kind of speaking in which the speaker selects a particular text of Scripture. He explains it in the context of the day in which it was written. He then applies it to the day in which the listener is living. This kind of preaching is not the norm; it’s the exception. ‘Springboard preaching’ is far more common. That is, the speaker reads the text and then springboards from it to say anything he cares to say.” (Page 30)
“An evangelistic speaker who handles Scripture carefully does not take a text and leap from it. Instead, he takes a text and leaps into it. He does not preach a word. He preaches the Word. The Bible is at the center, not in the background, of his message. An unbeliever listening to him speak hears not only what the speaker said but also finds out where in the Bible God said it first.” (Page 35)
“It’s the Word God uses to convict. That’s why expository evangelistic speaking is needed. If a passage of Scripture is ripped out of its original context and taken to mean something the writer of Scripture never intended it to mean, it is no longer the Word of God. At that point, we have preached our words, not God’s Word.” (Pages 37–38)
- Title: Show Me How to Preach Evangelistic Sermons
- Author: R. Larry Moyer
- Series: Show Me How Series
- Publisher: Kregel
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Preaching; Evangelistic work
- ISBN: 9780825438802
- Resource ID: LLS:SHWMVNGLSSRMNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:00:35Z