Jason Clark Talk 1.

Exploring the gift of teaching: the nature of teaching (slide 1) (Slide 2) Bastions of Boredom: preaching/teaching in trouble - two big challenges to preaching at present, 1) call to abandon it, as modernistic, boring and useless and 2) return to soild bible teaching - Want to offer suggestion that 1) preaching has run into trouble and 2) but removal of it, or turning back clock wont help - Instead renewal of it needed...and its needed more than ever - Need to understand teaching origins, change over time, challenges for today, and avoid taste and non biblical approaches, as in do what works pragmatism - so for rest of this session: 1) history of teaching/preaching and 2) assessment of where its at and 3) implications for preaching and teaching... - ...before we move onto after coffee how to be a better teacher/preacher, and why this understanding will help us (Slide 3) History of Teaching/Preaching Jesus and NT - Jesus preaches, proclaims, declares...teaches - 33 greek words in NT to cover what we might group as teaching - Pauls preaching/teaching different to Jesus, in took place in places of worship/church mostly, and about issues new church was facing, doctrine, missional challenges for the church - What did it mean to be a people following Jesus and Jesuss teaching? - But dont confuse scripture/Pauls letters with all of Pauls public teaching - Kerygma vs Didache: distinction can be made between declarations for people who dont have faith to find faith and ethical instructions on how to live for christians - Early Church: Until A.D. 529 and the Second Council of Vaison, only bishops were allowed to preach. - At this council, priests were given permission to preach, and in the absence of a priest, a deacon was allowed to read a sermon from one of the church fathers. - This pattern continued into the Middle Ages with the development of two monastic movements devoted to evangelical preaching: the Order of Friars Minors in 1209 and the Order of Preachers in 1220. - Preaching then become more prevalent...Order of Preachers Thomas Aquinas 1244 - (Slide 4) Reformation: Preaching developed, changed architecture, pulpit, authority of scripture instead of Catholic tradition - Then bible being translated into vernacular/english/german and people teaching about it - Once people had bible printed, they could make own meaning of it...need for teaching grows ironically to help understand it - In the 1380s, Wycliffe made the first hand-written copies of the Bible in English translated from the Latin Vulgate available. The advent of the printing press in the 1450s and the printing of the Guttenberg Bible soon followed. - (Slide 5) Modern Church: Rise of Modern teachers... - Jonathan Edwards, who traveled 250,000 miles and delivered 40,000 sermons; Charles Spurgeon, who preached to crowds of 5,000 people; and Billy Graham, who preached to hundreds of thousands of people in stadiums in the 1950s through the present.

Whitfield, preaching every day, thousands of people, 18th century Celebrities and self made people in a new modern world, christian resources for life? Sermon tasting develops... victorians in particular Ben Franklin: inventor, Founding Father, friend of Whitfield, impressed with speaking, and used skills for communication, instead of christian formation ;-) - Rise of sermon in Sunday service by Evangelicals - Yet despite its growth, preaching cited as one of the reasons people leave Church, dont preach at me (slide 6) Assessment of Preaching - Start with Homiletical theories: what is the nature and purpose of preaching - Transmission: truth from scripture to other peoples understanding, head - Epistemology: knowing the truth, and having people give intellectual assent to beliefs most important in modern church times - Speaking truth, and hearing truth and believing truth - Problem: finding core truths to keep communicating in propositions: head learning that becomes boring and about what we know - For people outside Church, non propositional approach to life, cant hear out talks no matter how well argued - Providing answers to questions people arent asking... - Preacher as expert others as idiots. - (Slides 7-13)Train idea: how do we communicate in a world where people, feel, do then believe? - Charismatic & Pentecostal preaching already addressing this: emotional appeal, conversational etc. - Relevant preaching: Rick Warren...talks for life themes - Call to abandon preaching sees even these as unhelpful, boring, life talks, and emotional hype... (Slide 14) A Proposal for preaching/teaching - Dialogue and Communication vs expert and learner, questions, process, context - Post-modern hermeneutics: who we are brought into our talks, not just content - Kerygma and Didache together: no seeker service, to know about gospel life is to explore faith with others not matter where they are - Narratives and story: learn through story, metaphor.... - Participation: Q&A, and feedback other ideas - Roles: Chief Emotional Officer, Chief Story Teller, Situation Learning Catalyst, Sacaramentalist - Gospel: more than ever, understanding it for our current context....next talk, theology, training, communication Q&A

Talk 2 How to be a better teacher/preacher? introduction: Understand the history, theology, nature of preaching

- Amazing how many people just do it, with no understanding of what it is and why etc? - Is your understanding of teaching rooted in the Church in history, it needs to be 2. Understand the current context for teaching/preaching (slide 2) - Theology, bible, history, social theory - Tim Keller talks on uTunes - Homiletics books 3. Teach others materials first: become a great teacher - Avoid the getting something fresh, like worship learn from others how to do it - Apprenticeship, practice gifting like any other, including praying for the sick - School: teachers dont write their own curriculum, they use others at first 4. Less is more - See all of your learning and life as preparation, you dont need 2 days to prepare a talk - See previous suggestion, use others materials and cite it - Better three chords well than 12 badly 5. 6. Develop communications skills note taking: short, mind map vs full notes public speaking improvise, going where the spirit and group leads Practice Q&A Visuals, slides, handouts...try things out and learn from courses/books

Content - Same three chords gets boring...need content - theology, biblical studies, missiology - You grow your community grows with you

7. Get Feedback - From people good at communications - From people on your content - In person, email talks, find people 8. Bring yourself - remember CEO, Sacramentalist, Story Teller...embody context, and learning and mission in your teaching - Vulnerable, learner, aspirational 9. Try different methods - Thematic, exegetical, story, coaching - start with what you are good at, coaching, or themes, then build up 10. Practice - Practice and practice Bibliography

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