Episode 55: An Encouraging Pastor

Episode 55: A Truthful Encourager

 

The nature of people’s lives + pastoral levels of frustration = a possibility for a huge disconnect.

1. Know your people
* How are they feeling beat up by life?

2. Know your purpose for preaching the message you are preaching
* Textually driven
* What does it teach
* Let your congregation know what emotion they might experience

3. Know your feelings in preaching
* Don’t take your frustrations to the pulpit
* Attendance trends…don’t beat the people up who are there.
* Encouragement is not just positivity; it's a mindset for helping people.
* It’s learning how to communicate for results

11 Command and teach these things. 12 Don’t let anyone despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. 13 Until I come, give your attention to public reading, exhortation, and teaching. 14 Don’t neglect the gift that is in you; it was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of hands by the council of elders. 15 Practice these things; be committed to them, so that your progress may be evident to all. 16 Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers. -- 1 Timothy 4:11-16 (CSB)...

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity. -- 1 Timothy 5:1-2 (CSB).

...Teach and encourage these things. -- 1 Timothy 6:2 (CSB)...

* Don’t avoid difficult passages, but encourage people to hear and respond.
* Don't be afraid to say "I don't know"
* Be a lifelong learner