Expository Preaching · Intermediate
Connecting with the Listeners
A preacher connects with his listeners by knowing them, answering their real needs from the text, and speaking plainly, directly, and with love, so that his delivery carries God's message to the conscience and never replaces it.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
1
What it means to connect a sermon to its hearers, and why the goal is that they meet God rather than admire the preacher
2
How Paul became all things to all men without ever changing the Gospel
3
How knowing your people shapes the way you explain and apply the text
4
How plainness, directness, and eye contact serve the message, and why delivery must never replace it
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