{"id":34257,"date":"2022-09-10T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preach-as-you-are\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:21:23","slug":"preach-as-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preach-as-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Preach as You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article for ChurchLeaders.com, James MacDonald, a contributing editor of <em>Preaching<\/em> magazine, tells us that our preaching reflects the person we really are. He writes: &#8220;The greatest compliment anyone could give you about your preaching ministry is that the way you preach is the way you are in real life. The key word is <em>authenticity<\/em>. The preaching of truth is communicated through an individual&#8217;s personality. Naturally, it&#8217;s going to come out differently from each of us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be who you are in the pulpit. Don&#8217;t act bigger than you do in normal life. Don&#8217;t talk or play a part you think others expect. Don&#8217;t copycat your favorite pastor or seminary professor. God loves how He made you and believe it or not, you&#8217;re perfectly suited for the message that He wants you to proclaim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, you can work on clarity and conviction. You definitely should strive to improve anything that could cloud your communication. Just keep it authentic. Martin Lloyd-Jones masterfully said: &#8216;Preaching is a truth coming through a man on fire.&#8217; Your preaching must be a true expression of the man God has made (and is making) you to be.&#8221; (Click here to read the full article.)<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/preach-as-you-are\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article for ChurchLeaders.com, James MacDonald, a contributing editor of Preaching magazine, tells us that our preaching reflects the person we really are. He writes: &#8220;The greatest compliment anyone could give you about your preaching ministry is that the way you preach is the way you are in real life. The key word &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preach-as-you-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preach as You Are&#8221;<\/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-34257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34257","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=34257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}