How to Listen to a Sermon
Collin Wimberly
James 1:19-25
CIT- James encourages the Jewish Christians to not only hear the Word, but to do it also.
Proposition- James encourages us to not only hear the word, but to live it as well.
Purpose- To encourage Christians to live out what they hear in a sermon.
INTRODUCTION: How many sermons have you heard in your life? 100, 200, 500, 1000 or more. If you have heard 2 sermons a week for the last 6 years that totals out to 624 sermons. That's a lot. Think of it this way, my sermons average between 35-40 minutes. So let's take the high number and work it out. That means my congregations have heard somewhere around 24,960 minutes of preaching! That translates into 416 hours of preaching, or 17.3 days. If you worked at it 40 hours a week, you would have to listen to sermons for 10.4 weeks to hear it all! That equals out to 2.6 months! Whew. Man, you guys really ought to be spiritual. I mean, even if half of the sermons stunk - they probably did- you still heard 208 hours of decent preaching!
With all that effort and work going into that much preaching and teaching, we need to get the most out of it we can!
I am reminded of Paul's ministry in Berea. After being run of out of Thessalonica, the church sent Paul and Silas to Berea to preach. Notice how they are described. Vs. 11- These were more fair-minded than those iun Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether there things were so. Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.
The Bereans knew how to listen to a sermon.
ILLUS: In the OT. Nehemiah arranged a preaching meeting. They stood and listened to the Word for half a day! There was revival.
They knew how to listen to a sermon.
James is going to tell us how to listen. In his words too many of us are hearers and not doers. You see, Simply hearing a sermon is not enou ...
Collin Wimberly
James 1:19-25
CIT- James encourages the Jewish Christians to not only hear the Word, but to do it also.
Proposition- James encourages us to not only hear the word, but to live it as well.
Purpose- To encourage Christians to live out what they hear in a sermon.
INTRODUCTION: How many sermons have you heard in your life? 100, 200, 500, 1000 or more. If you have heard 2 sermons a week for the last 6 years that totals out to 624 sermons. That's a lot. Think of it this way, my sermons average between 35-40 minutes. So let's take the high number and work it out. That means my congregations have heard somewhere around 24,960 minutes of preaching! That translates into 416 hours of preaching, or 17.3 days. If you worked at it 40 hours a week, you would have to listen to sermons for 10.4 weeks to hear it all! That equals out to 2.6 months! Whew. Man, you guys really ought to be spiritual. I mean, even if half of the sermons stunk - they probably did- you still heard 208 hours of decent preaching!
With all that effort and work going into that much preaching and teaching, we need to get the most out of it we can!
I am reminded of Paul's ministry in Berea. After being run of out of Thessalonica, the church sent Paul and Silas to Berea to preach. Notice how they are described. Vs. 11- These were more fair-minded than those iun Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether there things were so. Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.
The Bereans knew how to listen to a sermon.
ILLUS: In the OT. Nehemiah arranged a preaching meeting. They stood and listened to the Word for half a day! There was revival.
They knew how to listen to a sermon.
James is going to tell us how to listen. In his words too many of us are hearers and not doers. You see, Simply hearing a sermon is not enou ...
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