What Every Pastor Ought To Know

Maturity, Ministry & Management

A few of the specific outcomes from these sessions include:

• Proper Priorities—Discover how you may become a failure by “succeeding at the wrong things.”
• Personal Integrity—Understand how Satan gets God’s servants to fall into sin, not by tempting them to do “bad in the flesh,” but by tempting them to do “good in the flesh.”
• Sermon Preparation—Learn when to alliterate. When to illustrate. How to use humor in your preaching. Organizing a filing system. How to build an outline.
• Dynamic Expositional Preaching—Examine how and when to use expository preaching to positively impact your congregation.
• Sermon Illustrations—Discover how to find illustrations from one of the all-time masters. How to avoid three common errors when using illustrations.
• Spiritual Leadership—Empower your leadership with the secret of true spiritual authority.

Kit Outline

Introduction —

• The Pastor’s Job Description—Elder, Shepherd, Bishop
• Maturity — The Pastor as Elder
• The Pastor’s Personal Integrity
• The Pastor’s Spiritual Priority
• The Pastor’s Marital Fidelity
• The Pastor’s Sexual Purity

Ministry — The Pastor as Shepherd

• The Sermon’s Exposition
• The Sermon’s Preparation
• The Sermon’s Illustration
• The Sermon’s Presentation
• The Sermon’s Invitation

Management — The Pastor as Bishop

• The Pastor’s Pastoral Assignment
• The Pastor’s Spiritual Authority
• The Pastor’s Personal Leadership
• A Few More Thoughts — Something Extra
• Practical Ideas as well as Questions & Answers