The NXR Podcast - November 18, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Power of Persuasive Preaching

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jamie White Joel Webin Gary DeMar John Knox Joe Boot
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Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

152.36

Word count

915

Sentence count

42


Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the role of persuasion in the work of ministering in the church, and why it is more important than any other tool that can be used to influence, coerce, or coerce the flock.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request.
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00:00:19.680 Jesus said,
00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25.440 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30.000 Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion,
00:00:34.560 but willingly as God would have you, not for shameful gain, taking an appropriate wage
00:00:39.720 and doing appropriate work.
00:00:41.600 Do it eagerly, not domineering over those in your charge, not using coercion, but the
00:00:51.360 church, the Orthodox church has held now for 2000 years that the way that ministers, the
00:00:58.540 way that they the way that they guide the sheep the way that they shepherd the sheep the way that
00:01:02.960 they move the sheep is not through coercion but through persuasion to persuade i mean that's
00:01:10.040 literally what hebrews and i've used it multiple times now but if you remember about three weeks
00:01:14.060 ago hebrews chapter 13 verse 17 obey your leaders and submit to them the word obey means to be
00:01:22.420 persuaded by which means a pastor should be persuasive i don't like the way you're binding
00:01:29.220 my conscience i feel like you're being too forceful a pastor should be persuasive i was
00:01:34.740 speaking with stephan just this last friday john knox a wonderful pastor in scotland he kept breaking
00:01:42.120 pulpits because he kept banging on them you find his pulpits i mean they still have his pulpits
00:01:48.380 they're splintered from how many times he would hit them while preaching.
00:01:53.340 Was he disqualified?
00:01:56.220 I hope not.
00:01:58.240 If John Knox is disqualified,
00:02:00.100 then I don't know if there's a qualified man alive.
00:02:04.240 He wasn't using coercion.
00:02:06.920 He was using persuasion.
00:02:09.540 That is the weapon.
00:02:10.680 That is the tool that God has assigned to his ministers.
00:02:14.820 And to be fair, that is the tool that God has assigned to all his children.
00:02:20.360 To the saints has been given the work of ministry, Ephesians chapter 4.
00:02:24.540 And the work of ministry is to make disciples, the Great Commission.
00:02:29.360 And to make disciples, we do not do it through coercion.
00:02:32.820 We don't do it through crusades and the sword, that which is a physical sword.
00:02:39.540 But rather we do it through persuasion and that which is the spiritual sword.
00:02:44.140 which is sharper than any other sword it is double-edged it cuts through bone and marrow
00:02:49.660 someone says that hurt i don't like how you said that yeah it hurts it's a hammer it breaks things
00:02:55.780 to pieces that's what jeremiah says it's a double-edged sword it slices through every fiber
00:03:01.440 of our being it comforts it convicts it consoles and it condemns those who are not in christ and
00:03:12.400 who refuse his gospel call.
00:03:16.020 That is not coercion.
00:03:17.760 That is not manipulation.
00:03:19.880 That is not spiritual abuse.
00:03:22.080 That is persuasion.
00:03:24.720 If a person says, as a matter of accusation,
00:03:30.680 which no one says I have an accusation,
00:03:32.020 they'll always say I have a concern.
00:03:34.200 But let's be honest, an accusation.
00:03:38.440 I have an accusation against you.
00:03:40.760 you speak in such a way that it just you make people feel like they can't disagree
00:03:47.620 i think we have to consider whether the speaking is aligned with the scripture because if so
00:03:54.180 that's not wrong that's just good preaching if a person says when you sit down after an hour
00:04:01.940 of speaking people feel like to do anything other than what you said would be a sin
00:04:07.980 that could be spiritual abuse and manipulation or it could be good preaching
00:04:13.360 we persuade we plead we charge we confront we challenge this is the tool that has been given
00:04:26.620 to the ministers of god and to all the saints to perform faithful ministry
00:04:32.800 not domineering over those in your charge persuade houston we have a problem i repeat
00:04:42.540 we have a problem our conference is about to sell out i mean about to sell out we probably
00:04:48.100 have about 75 to 100 seats left our venue holds about 525 to 550 seats and we currently have
00:04:56.460 450 people who are registered for this conference. The excitement is tangible. A lot of people
00:05:02.840 registered because they wanted to hit the early bird rate. We're now at our normal rate, $130 for
00:05:08.280 an adult, $50 for a kid who's 11 to 17 years old, and kids 10 and under get in free. You can bring
00:05:14.360 the whole family, but the problem is not that we're going to raise the rate again. The problem
00:05:18.400 is we're going to run out of tickets and we're going to run out pretty fast. Again, we've got
00:05:23.060 about a hundred seats or less, 450 people six months out are already registered for this
00:05:28.960 conference. We don't want you to miss it. So to ensure that you get to make it to this conference,
00:05:34.300 you need to register not a month from now, not a week from now, not tomorrow, but today. You want
00:05:40.580 to be there for the Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference, May 5th, 6th, and 7th with James White,
00:05:46.800 Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Joel Webbin. Go to Right Response
00:05:52.720 rightresponseconference.com. Again, that's rightresponseconference.com. It will sell out very soon.