Now that I have completed this course, I can see the course applying to my ministry in the following ways so that I may understand the text and the different ways of preaching each subject. As a preacher, it is necessary to understand how to explain God’s promise in which he will pour His Spirit upon people in every special way so that every man receives a different gift that he who has ears and hearts will listen to God’s words and come to Him. The most significant things to my ministry are that each theme has four main different parts of teaching such as introduction, Law, Gospel, and application. It is important to understand that our fears, sadness, and suffering are lifted off our shoulders if we put them in the hands of our Father. Our …show more content…
That is to teach how to live in Christ in obedience and faithfully to the covenant between God and people. Making sure that the sermon touches the demands of today’s society applying to church life, leading our church members to develop the greatest possible variety of programs and activities to meet the needs of all family members. To what I understand to the point of preaching is that good preaching is just as important today as it was many years ago that will attract people into our congregation.
In my perspective giving real events are examples to support the scripture and are sometime directly related to the audience’s situation and are the solution to their questions. All of God’s word can cure people’s heart even in times of suffering and sorrow. It also makes sense to what the preacher is preaching and they may like the application part better than other parts. All these examples are to ensure that the audience understands the scripture lesson of the
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This may experience to my ministry because in the past I teach about law and I do not know anything about Gospel, it’s because I had not known that Gospel is so important in this many ways. Now that I have learned, I can see that every narrative story contains Gospel and salvation. I can see that each story God destroy the unrepentant people and save the promise people who I understands that God has saved the faithful people from time to time.
The most challenging part to my ministry is summarizing each verse by verse and summarizing chapter by chapter. In my ministry, the unique feature of each passage is hard to describe, because some of the texts are harder than others. Interpreting verses are very difficult, because it could be making false triumphs that explain the wrong passage to others. It is difficult to acknowledge about the arguments, the thought of progression of each chapter and on how each chapter fits into the structure and thought progression of the entire
The message of this book is basically never give up and always try to do your best no matter what the situation and you should remember that God is with one and he should be the priority in ones life. Well for different people the message of this book could be considered important or unimportant. The ideas of this book are of importance to certain people and these certain people should consider it. There are expressions of the author shown through certain incidents like when mid-terms came during a year at Yale he was unprepared because of his procrastinating studying techniques but the night before the exam while reviewing his notes he prayed for god to help him do good on the test and he had a dream about the test and the answers were in front of him, this expressed his philosophy of god helping one if they ask.
What topics or themes arise or could be developed from the text in light of the preaching context?
This book is a challenge for me to strive to get closer to God and make him the path maker in everything I do. I want to be the missionary wife that supports her husband as he leads the family. I want to be the mother who establishes a love for doing God’s work in her children. I want to be the woman who shows so much God in my life that the ladies around me can see his love. This book really challenged me to really work at doing just that. I want to go out of my comfort zone if that is what God wants. I want to be the missionary women that God
After reading the excerpt on “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God”, I discovered there was a lot of thought and time put into that six hour speech. Everything that was said in the speech was very true and make the reader (me) think about my perspective on life. You are not guaranteed anything. You are never guaranteed another day on Earth. You are never promised another day with the people you love. Never take anything for granted and always try your hardest and do your best. This excerpt was very persuasive in many ways because it showed that God is very powerful, life is very unpredictable, and everyone is a sinner until they are proven to be different.
My application to Wesley Seminar is an important step for me in the next phase of my own learning process. Growing pastorally, professionally and in grace-full leadership will enable me to connect with key areas of development throughout my graduate studies. Ultimately, what I learn will better equip me to fulfill the Great Commission and do so leading like Jesus.
I must say that I learned a lot from this class both through the readings and through class discussion. I really, honestly do not have anything that I starkly disagreed with in either. I found it all to be very valuable information for me and this class was extremely helpful in assisting me to better understand the current paradigm shift the church is going through. There are three take-a-ways in particular that helped me to better understand the post modern shift in the church and my role as a minister in this changing paradigm. The first take-a-way is the understanding that there is a shift occurring towards focusing more on the congregational life of the church with more attention on the laity and its formation. Second, is how to plan, as a church and as pastors, to adjust to this shift towards congregational life and how to be better prepared as a postmodern church to be relevant in this changing time. Lastly, I received a better way of explaining the meaning of what truth is in this post modern time.
Perkins’s offered a summary of what preaching involved at the end of The Art. According to Perkins, Preaching involves:
Looking back over the course of the semester, I feel that I learned many new and interesting uses for technology within the classroom – both for classrooms that have a lot of technology and for classrooms that are limited with technology. For the majority of the class, we utilized William Kists’ book The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age (2010), which provided multiple modes of instruction that both utilized and/or created technology. One of the first things that I remember, and consequently that stuck with me through the course’s entirety, is that individuals must treat everything as a text. Even a garden is a text. The statement made me change the way that I traditionally viewed Language Arts both as a student and as a teacher, as I very narrowly saw literature and works of the like as texts only; however, by considering nearly anything as a text, one can analyze, study, and even expand his/her knowledge. Kist (2010) states that society is “experiencing a vast transformation of the way we “read” and “write,” and a broadening of the way we conceptualize “literacy” (p. 2). In order to begin to experience and learn with the modern classroom and technologically advanced students, individuals must begin to see new things as literature and analyze those things in a similar manner.
Without a doubt the lessons and exercises on time management were the most meaningful to me. They brought insight into why I seemed to be constantly working yet still never really got anything I wanted to accomplish throughout the day finished. I realized the majority of the activities I had been spending the most time on didn’t reflect my values of hard work and self discipline and long term academic goals to be successful in college. This motivated to completely change the way I managed my time by effectively striking a balance between my maintenance, committed, and free time.
This semester has proved to be a real awakening to what direction I need to be pursuing in my spiritual walk. I have learned so much through this course. Some of the things that I have learned that have become more important than they were in the past are; the need for silence, the need for community, the need for direction, and above all how utterly helpless we are when we try to “do” everything, including ministry without seeking God first.
Overall, this book helped me become more aware of my weaknesses with my preaching style and also gave me tools to strengthen them. The examples are very basic and practical and helped highlight key skills and situations that a preacher can experience when doing a sermon. This book added more knowledge to me and gave me new insights that I can use as a tool when I go back with my ministry as a youth worker.
“Everyone – pastors, laypeople, conference ministers, the whole congregation” must feel the presence of God in their life. If you do not have the sense that God is active in your life, it will be very difficult to share that with others. The second key Reese addresses is that all people “must be focused, minds engaged and open to see patterns, details, opportunities, changes and miracles.” People then must know what their roles are. People will have different gifts to share, however, “all faith, all reality, all love and any real movement comes from
I learn that from this class, I am priceless that makes God have to give heaven 's best asset, which is the Son, Jesus Christ to die for me on the cross. After I received this revelation, I realize that every people matter in God 's eyes. As the follower of Christ, I cannot stop from showing the goodness of God 's love in my life to others (believer or unbeliever), because the moment I stop at displaying God 's love in my life to others, then I started to become like the unsalted Christian. Spiritual maturity also talks about enjoying my relationship with God and how could I influence others with God 's love in me by doing an intentional and significant action that could become the evidence of God 's love in my life. In other words, when God 's love started to invade my life, I would become contagious
It is important for me to remember when preparing a sermon, that it is not about the preacher, but through preaching, God the Holy Spirit does the work of giving God’s
In the context of Christian education, the teacher performs his role by using lessons culled from the Bible and communicating them through lectures, seminars, or discussions. However, in order to be an effective teacher, I should expand on these lessons by providing real-life examples and hypothetical illustrations in order for the student to find relevance in the lessons taught. I should provide good models for the student to imitate, and in fact, I should also make sure that I am a good model myself by knowing and taking to heart all the lessons I teach. In other words, the instruction must be thorough. To ensure that I am fulfilling my role as teacher, I must provide an opportunity for the students to respond to the lesson. According to the Richards and Bredfeldt, when a student discovers a relationship between himself and the lesson, the “pathway to personal response stands open.” By making the lessons individually applied, decentralized and student-centered, but teacher-oriente...