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The Pastor goes through his creative process.
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Timothy Keller:
Timothy Keller is an American author, speaker, and the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in New York City, New York. Timothy is the author of The Reason for God and The Prodigal God.
He was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. However, he learned the most from his nine years as a pastor of West Hopewell Presbyterian Church in the small blue-collar town of Hopewell, Virginia. The congregation there loved him, suffered through his earliest days as a pastor, and taught an intellectual northerner to be clear. His second church was Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, which he started in 1989 with his wife, Kathy, and three young sons.
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Question: How do you write a sermon?Tim Keller: So, two weeks ahead I sit down with the text of the passage of the Bible I’m going to preach on and I spent about four hours figuring out what I think the outline of that text is, the meaning of the text. I need to look up what the commentators think about, maybe problematic verses. And I come up with an outline and a basic, you might say, an exegesis or an exposition of the passage itself.
I write this up and I send it to my musicians. We’re going to be putting it in a bulletin and then they’re going to be choosing music for it. I send it to other preachers who some of them are going to be preaching sermons on the same text.
Then, three days before, I sit down with this outline and I spend another four hours turning the bible study into a sermon--and they’re not the same thing. Bible study is more abstract, what does the text say. The sermon is more life related, what does this mean to me.
So I spend four hours two weeks ahead on the text. I spend four hours turning it into a life-related sermon and that’s usually on the Friday before. And then on Saturday, I spend another six hours on it just trying to make it shorter, because it’s always too long and so I make it shorter, make it shorter, make it shorter, make it shorter.
So I spend about 14 to 16 hours a week writing a sermon and I spend all day preaching it because I speak four times on a Sunday. And so I actually put in about 25 hours a week into producing and delivering one public speaking presentation before I do anything else in my job.
So that's how you do it? I've always wondered how much time and effort you put it to making such memorable and thought provoking sermons. Thanks for sharing!
Wow! We can hear the quality. Pays off. :)
This is why those who shepherd well, especially those who teach and preach are worthy of double honor.
Wow. Holy Spirit, help me to be that focus and dedicated, please.
Thank you!
Tim , Great to hear the effort you put into each sermon . The work shows . I am in the process of ordination ,so i am very interested in your practical experience . Approximately how many words make up your initial exegesis ? Blessings Rob
I love him!
this helps! thanks Tim!
Tim Keller is an absolute Legend! He preaches a lot about idolatry but Tim Keller is my idol! Hahaha 🤣
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Couldn't have said it better myself
what a boss
Great point, odinata! I'd say you'd better thank God that we Christians don't try "evangeli"zing the nations by exterminating them, like the good people about whom I'm fairly certain you're not bothering to comment on. But you wouldn't thank God, since there's no proof of h[im]... Then again, as much as your name and aliases show up on loads of websites, I don't see a single post, picture, video, profile information of any kind...
...which leads me to doubt whether 'odinata' really exists, without any proof beyond the words strung together into childish statements and attributed to this so-called "commenter." Doesn't it seem more rational to assume that these statements were formed after a spontaneous eruption resulted in the idiocy we've (for much too long) attributed to this "odinata" figure, who doesn't exist because we can't see anything more than what looks like a black hole, of all things? Grow up, Keller is BOSS
I think Bible Study is way more valuable than a sermon. Early synogogs didn't have a preacher. They would read a passage and the rabbi's would discuss it. The Synogog was a Bible study center. A church is just a Christian synogog. The only thing I would change is that women would be allowed to speak in church because they weren't allowed in the synogog. There was a clear pecking order when it came to the synogog. If Paul said stuff to the effect that women shouldn't speak in church he made it clear that it was his oppinion. Obviously the idea that women shouldn't preach is no different. It's just his opinion. We treat the Bible as if it were a law. The old Testament was the law. We are free of the law and the first thing we should be free from is saying women shouldn't preach. The only thing I would say is that if you are a female preacher please don't have a chip on your shoulder about people judging you. The only thing wrong with a female preacher is that preachers are a bad thing in general. Sermons are a mistake. It should all be Bible study and instead of pews there should be tables. Jesus equated preaching and eating. But the real key is that all churches should have a place to put your Bible. What school doesn't have desks?