Preaching application
Gordon Cheng / 17th September 2007
/ Ministry
I'm watching a DVD of Paul Dale speaking to Col Marshall as I type this. Paul is presenting superlative material on preaching and on how to train others in preaching. All of this will end up going into the DVD(s) I'm working on for MTS. Paul points out that Richard Baxter, the great Puritan preacher, spent half of his sermons preaching application of the passage he was exegeting. I don't know if I'd want to see all ministers trying to do quite that much, but it would be a stretching exercise for most of our preaching (and, dare I say, useful for our hearers) if we all worked harder on this.