{"id":1082,"date":"2011-10-05T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2011-10-05T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:51:38","slug":"preaching-seminar-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2011\/10\/preaching-seminar-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The preacher stands, as John Stott has said, <em>\u201cbetween two worlds;\u201d<\/em> the world of the Bible and the world in which his hearers live. He must understand both and bridge the divide so that the contemporary hearer really hears in his circumstances and experience the timeless, infallible, completed, and sufficient written Word. Preaching is the means by which the objective written Word becomes, without changing its message one bit, the Word of God spoken to us. This means that the sermon is a <em>&#8220;crisis moment&#8221;<\/em> in which the listener hears and responds to God speaking to him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/preaching-seminar-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/preaching-seminar-photo-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"preaching seminar photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/preaching-seminar-photo-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/preaching-seminar-photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/preaching-seminar-photo.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was great on Saturday to have twenty people attend a day\u2019s seminar on preaching. Seven Churches were represented with a good mixture of people, some just starting their preaching ministry and others more experienced but wanting to \u2018sharpen up\u2019 and remind themselves of the important principles involved in preaching. Ivor Cooper and myself led the four interactive sessions:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022The Preacher \u2013 preparation &#038; tools.<br \/>\n\u2022The Message \u2013 sermon construction.<br \/>\n\u2022The Presentation \u2013 before the people.<br \/>\n\u2022The Visualisation \u2013 using visual aids &#038;  other media<\/p>\n<p>We trust that those who attended the seminar will be better equipped in their preaching ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preacher stands, as John Stott has said, \u201cbetween two worlds;\u201d the world of the Bible and the world in which his hearers live. He must understand both and bridge the divide so that the contemporary hearer really hears in his circumstances and experience the timeless, infallible, completed, and sufficient written Word. Preaching is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}