Preaching/teaching evaluations with optional templates
MJ. Smith
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The preface to Anabaptist Preaching: Greiser, David B, King, Michael A: 9781931038195: has an interesting list of the qualities of a successful sermon/homily:
expository (grounded in the biblical text)
relevant (speaking to contemporary hearers)
inspiring (engendering hope through judgment and grace)
prophetic (delivering a word from the Lord)
communal (co-creating with listeners the meaning of God's message)
evangelical (proclaiming God's good news)
charismatic (empowered and directed by the Holy Spirit)
invitational (calling people to follow Jesus in the world)
captivating (holding people's attention)
Obviously, preachers/teachers in other traditions will have a different list of qualities. I suggest that for some sermons, it is useful for the preacher to analyze their own sermon against these qualities to understand why the sermon was unusually successful or why it fell flat at certain points. The purpose of capturing this information is not only to keep improving in one's preaching skills but also to remind yourself where you may wish to modify the sermon when repeating it in a different context. I suggest that the sermon metadata include a section to evaluate the sermon after preaching, and that the section have optional templates to reflect different theologies of preaching.
expository (grounded in the biblical text)
relevant (speaking to contemporary hearers)
inspiring (engendering hope through judgment and grace)
prophetic (delivering a word from the Lord)
communal (co-creating with listeners the meaning of God's message)
evangelical (proclaiming God's good news)
charismatic (empowered and directed by the Holy Spirit)
invitational (calling people to follow Jesus in the world)
captivating (holding people's attention)
Obviously, preachers/teachers in other traditions will have a different list of qualities. I suggest that for some sermons, it is useful for the preacher to analyze their own sermon against these qualities to understand why the sermon was unusually successful or why it fell flat at certain points. The purpose of capturing this information is not only to keep improving in one's preaching skills but also to remind yourself where you may wish to modify the sermon when repeating it in a different context. I suggest that the sermon metadata include a section to evaluate the sermon after preaching, and that the section have optional templates to reflect different theologies of preaching.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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