Episode 2: Introduction to View From the Pulpit: Why a podcast about preaching?

Show Notes: “View from the Pulpit” Podcast, Episode 2: Introduction to View From the Pulpit: Why a podcast about preaching?

Episode Theme: Recovering a love for, appreciation of, and devotion to preaching.

In this episode of “View from the Pulpit,” host Ben Smith shares his story of how God has transformed his understanding of preaching. Ben explains how he hopes to help the listeners grow in their understanding of God’s word and the ministry and role of preaching. He shares that he hopes this podcast will be used to recapture and recover the church’s love for, appreciation of, and devotion to preaching.

Key Highlights:

The Primacy of the Ministry of Preaching: Ben Smith explains that the primacy of the ministry of preaching is such that if you remove it, a church ceases to be a church, and every other ministry of the church flows from it.

Conviction over Education: While education is helpful, and theological education can be a great asset for a preacher, faithful preaching requires more than academics and education. Ben Smith shares a personal experience that revealed the necessity for those who preach to labor under the conviction that the Bible is the word of God.

Substance over performance: Everyone loves a good show and enjoys being entertained. There is a performative element to preaching, but faithful preaching must be much more than a performance. Ben Smith shares his personal experience of coming to appreciate biblically faithful preaching more than the performance of preaching.

Faithfulness over size: The hardest lesson for anyone who teaches or preaches is not to be enamored with the illusion of crowd size. Ben Smith explains how crowd size is not the only, most important, or most helpful metric in assessing the faithfulness of a preaching ministry.

Join Ben Smith for an insightful discussion of the importance of preaching and why a podcast devoted to the ministry of preaching will be helpful to the church.

Ben Smith is the pastor of Central Baptist Church, Waycross, GA.

For more information and resources from Pastor Ben Smith, visit www.BenSmithSr.org

For more information on Central Baptist Church, Waycross, GA, visit https://cbcwaycross.org/

Other podcasts by Ben Smith:

All For the Kingdom is a weekly podcast of pastor Ben’s preaching ministry. https://www.bensmithsr.org/bensmith-allforthekingdom

Sermon Shorts is a podcast of sermon clips that are 5 minutes or less. https://www.bensmithsr.org/shortspod

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