Pulpit Guidelines for Guest Speakers

We appreciate your willingness to spend time ministering to our local Church congregation. We have prepared some ideas for you to consider, as we seek to be good communicators of God's Word to His people here.

1. Be yourself, remember that preaching is truth communicated by people with personality.

2. Speak simply, so that all can understand. Our congregation is a wonderful mix of races, cultures, and generations. Consequently, many of our people do not speak English as a first language ... so plain English without a lot of idiomatic expressions will communicate best.

3. The finest illustrations are derived from your own life and experiences, but try to eliminate those that require an intimate knowledge of your culture, homeland, or upbringing.

4. We seek to be worshippers and prayer warriors – mastering the basics of prayer, the Word, fellowship, and evangelism. We strive for teaching that originates in God's heart, who instructs us by His Holy Spirit. The best messages are those that unite us and build us up.

The following themes need to be constantly reinforced in our hearts and minds until they are part of our spiritual bloodstream:

a. practical Christian living

b. the necessity of Holy living

c. the character of God

d. identity in Christ

e. the Lordship of Christ

f. union with Christ

g. growing in Christ

h. the indwelling Holy Spirit

i. the marks of a disciple – radical Christian living – serious commitment

j. stewardship

k. meditating constantly on the Word (Joshua 1:8, 1Timothy 4:6)

l. obedience to the Word

m. prayer

n. priorities of the Christian life: God, body of Christ, ministry to the world

o. unity of believers

p. the priesthood of all believers

q. basic Christian doctrine

5. We try to end our Sunday service at about 12:30.

Thanks again for making yourself available for teaching in our Church. We pray that the Lord will use your time, and reward your sacrifice for being with us on Sunday.

II Tim 3:14-4:2 Warren D. Carter

Chairman, Council of Elders

PulGuide

16.Jan.95