DAILY TRUTH - The Power of Persuasive Preaching
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Summary
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.
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Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion,
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but willingly as God would have you, not for shameful gain, taking an appropriate wage
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Do it eagerly, not domineering over those in your charge, not using coercion, but the
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church, the Orthodox church has held now for 2000 years that the way that ministers, the
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way that they the way that they guide the sheep the way that they shepherd the sheep the way that
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they move the sheep is not through coercion but through persuasion to persuade i mean that's
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literally what hebrews and i've used it multiple times now but if you remember about three weeks
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ago hebrews chapter 13 verse 17 obey your leaders and submit to them the word obey means to be
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persuaded by which means a pastor should be persuasive i don't like the way you're binding
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my conscience i feel like you're being too forceful a pastor should be persuasive i was
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speaking with stephan just this last friday john knox a wonderful pastor in scotland he kept breaking
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pulpits because he kept banging on them you find his pulpits i mean they still have his pulpits
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they're splintered from how many times he would hit them while preaching.
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then I don't know if there's a qualified man alive.
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That is the tool that God has assigned to his ministers.
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And to be fair, that is the tool that God has assigned to all his children.
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To the saints has been given the work of ministry, Ephesians chapter 4.
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And the work of ministry is to make disciples, the Great Commission.
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And to make disciples, we do not do it through coercion.
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We don't do it through crusades and the sword, that which is a physical sword.
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But rather we do it through persuasion and that which is the spiritual sword.
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which is sharper than any other sword it is double-edged it cuts through bone and marrow
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someone says that hurt i don't like how you said that yeah it hurts it's a hammer it breaks things
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to pieces that's what jeremiah says it's a double-edged sword it slices through every fiber
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of our being it comforts it convicts it consoles and it condemns those who are not in christ and
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you speak in such a way that it just you make people feel like they can't disagree
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i think we have to consider whether the speaking is aligned with the scripture because if so
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that's not wrong that's just good preaching if a person says when you sit down after an hour
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of speaking people feel like to do anything other than what you said would be a sin
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that could be spiritual abuse and manipulation or it could be good preaching
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we persuade we plead we charge we confront we challenge this is the tool that has been given
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to the ministers of god and to all the saints to perform faithful ministry
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not domineering over those in your charge persuade houston we have a problem i repeat
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we have a problem our conference is about to sell out i mean about to sell out we probably
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have about 75 to 100 seats left our venue holds about 525 to 550 seats and we currently have
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450 people who are registered for this conference. The excitement is tangible. A lot of people
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registered because they wanted to hit the early bird rate. We're now at our normal rate, $130 for
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an adult, $50 for a kid who's 11 to 17 years old, and kids 10 and under get in free. You can bring
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the whole family, but the problem is not that we're going to raise the rate again. The problem
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is we're going to run out of tickets and we're going to run out pretty fast. Again, we've got
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about a hundred seats or less, 450 people six months out are already registered for this
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conference. We don't want you to miss it. So to ensure that you get to make it to this conference,
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you need to register not a month from now, not a week from now, not tomorrow, but today. You want
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to be there for the Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference, May 5th, 6th, and 7th with James White,
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Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Joel Webbin. Go to Right Response
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