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THE ART of PREACHING by Rev Alex B Noble THE ART OF PREACHING By Rev Alex B Noble DEDICATION This book is dedicated to my minister and father Rev George Strachan Noble who, more than anyone, taught me the art of preaching; also, my congregations over the past 25 years St Mark’s Parish Church, Stirling Dunbar Parish Church Fyvie linked with Rothienorman Parish Churches Saltcoats North Parish Church who have helped me to refine the art; and the 60 student preachers whom I have been privileged to help in some small way to learn the art of preaching. CONTENTS 1 What is Preaching? 2 Why Preach? 3 Preparing the Preacher 4 Preparing the Congregation 5 Accumulating Material 6 The Christian Year 7 What to Preach 8 Types of Sermons 9 Sermon Construction 10 How To Preach 11 Checklist For Analysing Worship and Preaching 12 Keeping Records Bibliography - Good Sermons Good Books on the Art of Preaching ABOUT THE AUTHOR The Reverend Alex B Noble was born on 23 rd May 1955 in Fraserburgh, Scotland and brought up in the twin Aberdeenshire fishing villages of Cairnbulg and Inverallochy. His father, George Noble, was a fish market auctioneer who came to own a fish salesman business and then became minister of Newarthill Parish Church near Motherwell. Alex graduated MA from Glasgow University, BD (Hons) from Aberdeen University and ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. After serving as an Assistant Minister in St. Ninian’s Parish Church, Corstorphine, Edinburgh, he was ordained as a Church of Scotland minister on 6 th January 1982 and inducted as minister of St. Mark’s Parish Church, Raploch, Stirling. He married Patricia West in 1991 and after serving for over eleven years in this urban priority area charge he moved to Dunbar Parish Church in 1993. In 1999 he moved to Aberdeenshire to the rural charge of Fyvie Parish Church linked with Rothienorman Parish Church and in 2003 he became the parish minister of Saltcoats North Parish Church in Ayrshire. In his 25 years as a parish minister, Alex has preached week in, week out, to a wide variety of congregations. All the time he was practising the art he was studying it in great detail – immersing himself in many books about preaching and sitting at the feet of some of the greatest ever preachers. This book is the distilled wisdom not only of his own quarter century of preaching and reflection upon it, but is also some of the corporate, cumulative wisdom of many famous preachers down the centuries. The baton inherited from our predecessors in the pulpit is passed on by Alex to you the reader and a whole new generation of preachers. A Synopsis of: “THE ART OF PREACHING” by Alex B Noble This is a book written for preachers by a preacher. Of course anyone who ever listens to preaching, (and there are rumoured to be one or two such people in every congregation), would also find it to be an interesting insight into the mysterious human-divine inter-action which we call preaching. The book sheds light on questions such as: How is it that God speaks through human words? In what sense is the preacher’s human and fallible words the Word of God? This book is born out of my 25 years in parish ministry, in five congregations, in village to city parishes, ranging from the east to the west and the north to the south of Scotland. During that time I have preached nearly 1,000 sermons, in 52 different churches in Scotland, USA, Kenya, Jamaica, Taiwan, Brazil, the Bahamas. On the other hand, I have also listened to preaching for over 50 years now. This book is written by a preacher for preachers, but it is also written by one long accustomed to sitting through sermons (of mixed quality) for those who share the joy or agony. The basic premise of this book, as the title states, is that preaching is an art and has to be seen as such by both preacher and hearer. We never master the art fully, but we keep learning and improving by thinking and praying about it and by studying it and doing it. Hopefully this book will contribute a little to that process. Throughout my preaching ministry I have been studying the art of preaching by listening very carefully to other preachers and by reading many books on preaching by past masters. I lament the fact that their classic books on the subject are passing away, out of print, representing a huge loss of wisdom, so I have studied their books and distilled some of their priceless, timeless wisdom into this book. We have inherited a very rich preaching heritage and I want to help to pass on the baton to the next generation of preachers. The contents of the book make it very obvious what it is about, namely the who, why, what, when, where and how of preaching. It is a mixture of my own personal ideas and also the distilled wisdom of past masters of the art of preaching. So let those who have ears to hear, hear here and those who have eyes to see, read on! WHAT IS PREACHING? Where does one go for the answer? The dictionary? Which dictionary? Why should it know? My two dictionaries clearly do not know. The Collins English Gem Dictionary says: “To Preach: deliver sermon; give moral, religious advice; set forth in religious discourse; advocate.” The Chambers Everyday Paperback Dictionary says: “To Preach: to pronounce a public discourse on sacred subjects; to discourse earnestly; to give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner; to deliver a sermon; to advocate; to inculcate Preachify: to weary with lengthy advice.” Reading that, what father or mother would ever want their sons and daughters to become preachers! Preaching has slipped into popular slang as “jumping down people’s throats”, “force feeding of ideas”, “getting at people”, “speaking without listening”. What a bad press preaching gets! Where does God come in to the Dictionary or the colloquial understandings of preaching? How much further from the truth can it get? So what is it then? Andrew Blackwood’s opening line in chapter one of his classic book, “The Preparation of Sermons” is (p13): “Preaching should rank as the noblest work on earth” (and adds that the preacher should be seen as the most important person in the community)! Bernard Lord Manning in “A Layman in the Ministry” (p138) said: “(Preaching is) a manifestation of the Incarnate Word, from the Written Word, by the spoken word.” The Larger Catechism (Q155) makes the reading and preaching of the Word: “an effectual means of enlightening, convincing and humbling sinners; of driving them out of themselves, and drawing them unto Christ; of conforming them to His image; and subduing them to His will; of strengthening them against temptations and corruptions; of building them up in grace, and establishing their hearts in holiness and comfort through faith unto salvation.” Professor H.H.Farmer writes in “The Servant of the Word” (p27-28): “Preaching is that divine, saving activity in history, which began two thousand years ago in the advent of Christ….Preaching is not merely telling me something. It is God actively probing me, challenging my will, calling on me for decision, offering me His succour, through the only medium which the nature of His purpose permits Him to use, the medium of a personal relationship.” So preaching is a DIVINE activity. It is God speaking to people through human agents. It is divine Word communicated through human words. To distinguish the divine word from the human words we give a capital “W” when meaning Gods’ Word. The main point about preaching is that it is something which God does, while the preacher is preaching as one human to other human beings. The vertical and horizontal dimensions go together. The man or woman in the pulpit is the voice and instrument of God. This is variously understood but it seems pretty obvious that it is human to human communication but God can somehow inspire both the speaking and the hearing to greater or lesser extents till He is able to communicate Himself through the medium of that human communication. So, we do not just preach what God has said….in preaching God is saying! The dictionaries quoted earlier completely miss this vision. As cause or consequence the general public also seems to miss this wonderful vision and fail to appreciate the great miracle of preaching. The minister is the channel of a communication, not the source of it. The sermon is a message. Behind the preacher is a God who speaks. Halford E Luccock writes in his book “In the Minister’s Workshop” (p11): “It (preaching) is not giving all that is in us; it is giving that which is not in us at all.” On the same page, Luccock quotes Rodin the artist with regard to sculpture: “the search (of the mature artist) is to express, not himself, but his sense of something that exists in himself, something not personal but universal. What that something is has never been clearly defined; it has been felt as the reality behind appearances. To express not his own feeble or defective emotions, but his conception, his apprehension of that reality, felt through his emotion – that is the object of his search.” Luccock says that sermons begin where rivers begin – in the sky. The preacher bears a revelation from God and behind his words is the Word. He says (p12): “Himself confronting the reality of God, the preacher in his message confronts men with the revelation of a God who has unveiled Himself.” Every week I and every other preacher participate in a wonderful miracle.
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