Preaching Styles Quotes

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.

Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.