Tag: Preachers and Leaders
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Preaching sermons and shepherding the flock: What’s the connection?
Lionel Windsor | 2 Feb 2015 | Priscilla and Aquila Conference | Moore College, Sydney I’m here republishing my 2015 paper, which originally appeared as a PDF and video. See here for more on the history of the discussion and the publications lying behind it) The context of the question This paper is seeking to…
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Preaching sermons and leading congregations: what’s the connection? (Exploring some implications)
Paper, audio and video of a conference paper exploring further questions relating to my essay, “Preachers and Leaders”
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Preachers and Leaders 4: Preaching and congregational leadership today
Now, as then, preaching should be understood as the public component of the speech of a congregational leader to a congregation under his care, by which he ensures that the congregation learns, obeys and holds on to the truth of God’s word. A congregational leader leads his congregation by preaching; conversely, preaching is the key…
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Preachers and Leaders 3: Preaching as congregational leadership: a venerable history
The regular sermon, according to key figures from church history including Chrysostom, Augustine, Calvin, Cranmer and Perkins, is the key means by which shepherd-leaders fulfil their responsibility to ensure that the truth of God’s word is guarded, learned and obeyed among their congregations.
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Preachers and Leaders 2: The speech of shepherd-leaders in the New Testament
In a number of places across the New Testament, we see a certain pattern of congregational leadership. Christian congregations often include certain people who are described as carrying a weighty responsibility. This responsible leadership role is based on and derived from the word of the apostles, which in turn is grounded in the Old Testament…
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Preachers and Leaders 1: A separation of preaching and leadership?
Among the many important issues and questions that have been raised during recent debates about women and preaching, one that has received perhaps too little attention is this: What exactly is this thing we call a ‘sermon’ or ‘preaching’? Preaching is the public component of the speech of a congregational shepherd-leader to the congregation under…
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Preachers and Leaders Preface: The publication history of Hearing Her Voice
This post is an online preface to my essay “Preachers and Leaders”, defending the essay and the book in which it appears against a particular charge relating to the publication history of one of the books which it interacts (*Hearing Her Voice* by John Dickson)