When I helped plant a church in my area four years ago, we adopted a different leadership model: a preaching team of three that planned together and rotated services for preaching. I found it to be a helpful and stimulating experience as a pastor.<\/p>\n
In a recent article for LifeWay Pastors, Todd Wright talks about benefits he has seen through developing a preaching\/teaching team. Here are three of them:<\/p>\n
All of us have seen a pastor with a \u201cGod Complex.\u201d It could have been in the mirror. It\u2019s dangerous when a pastor begins to believe and embrace all of the spiritual rhetoric that flows from parishioners. \u201cGod speaks through you like no other!\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re an amazing man or God!\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re the best preacher I ever heard!\u201d People in the pew too often make gods out of pastors, and too often pastors embrace their efforts. Developing a preaching team helps maximize the influence of Bible teaching rather than a single pastor\u2019s personality. At my church we never<\/strong>\u00a0announce beforehand who is preaching the next Sunday. We\u2019re teaching the people that it\u2019s not about the preacher, but about the Word\u00a0being preached!<\/p>\n For many years I planned my sermons and series alone. Now I work with a team. Sometimes we preach expositionally through a Bible book, a topical series of several weeks, or\u00a0a Bible character study. Everyone on the team gives input and creative ideas with the goal of teaching for greater impact and life change. We have scheduled times each week for critique of the previous Sunday\u2019s teacher and sermon. In every<\/strong>\u00a0case, the series, sermon, and preacher are better because of the team.<\/p>\n I remember the days of preaching every Sunday morning and evening and Wednesday evening, and even planning my vacations around Sundays. Now I preach 60% of the Sundays and the other 40% are shared with two teaching pastors on staff. For years I felt like the church could not function well without my presence. Now I see some of the greatest movements of God happen when others on the team are preaching. God can use them too, while I\u2019m taking a break. It\u2019s a win-win! [Read the full article with all 5 benefits]<\/p>\n When I helped plant a church in my area four years ago, we adopted a different leadership model: a preaching team of three that planned together and rotated services for preaching. I found it to be a helpful and stimulating experience as a pastor. In a recent article for LifeWay Pastors, Todd Wright talks about … Continue reading “3 benefits to a preaching team”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}It improves the sermons for the congregation and the preachers.<\/h3>\n
It helps refresh the lead pastor.<\/h3>\n