Tips for Preaching Multiple Times a Week

Steve Mathewson shares some tips on how to prepare multiple sermons per week.

1. You must prioritize! Spend most of your time preparing the sermon for your ‘primary’ worship service(s), and spend less time preparing for the ‘secondary’ preaching opportunity. . . .
2. Feel free to recycle! A good sermon is worth preaching twice, especially when you re-work it and tinker with it the second time around. . . .
3. Expand themes or material from your primary sermon for your sermon in the secondary setting. . . . Usually, you’ll have more material than you can use when you’re done studying for your primary sermon. So, use it in your secondary sermon!
4. Use the secondary setting to wrestle with application. In my opinion, North American Christianity does not devote enough time to this! . . .
5. Use secondary settings to let others in the church exercise and develop their gifts! . . . Reserve these opportunities for other pastoral staff members or for preachers-in-training.

Read the two posts at the PreachingToday blog:

• When You Have to Prepare More Than One Sermon Per Week (Part 1)
• When You Have to Prepare More Than One Sermon Per Week (Part 2)

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