Friday, 15 March 2019

How To Gauge David Asscherick Sermons

By Jerry Cole


There are quite a lot of preachers out there. David Asscherick is a missionary located in Australia ministering in an Adventist church. He has ministered for fifteen years which owes to the great sermons that the pastor preaches. Every listener should learn how to gauge preaching to determine its suitability. Here are guidelines for gauging David Asscherick sermons.

The sermons should have one clear point. Having one clear point is an elementary rule for any public speaking. Listeners tend to get confused when presented with quite a lot of points for a specific sermon. Therefore, check whether the pastor maintains simple declarations such as God is merciful, Jesus is alive and other simple exhortation which listeners can easily follow through.

Make sure that everything has a biblical context. You should find a constant reference of the Bible when you want to determine how suitable a sermon is. The pastor can start by touching on familiar Bible verses before going into specific verses related to the main verse. The listeners can easily create a linkage between the biblical contexts with preaching through such an approach.

Confirm whether the sermon responds to personal needs. There are heavy critics against a need-based approach to preaching. Even so, pastors can still maintain such sermons but should not overdo it. Good doctrine expects the preacher to focus on needs such as grit, despair, hope which are factors that connect with the people. Preaching can fail to meet its purpose of instructing, warning or comforting if it does not focus on such needs.

Determine whether you understand the main point in the text. A good sermon should help you understand the Bible much better. A good preacher should make his or her agenda the agenda of God rather than doing it the other way. The word of God should predominantly but not exclusive remain expositional. The pastor should point the word of God verse by verse to reveal the whole Biblical picture.

Make sure that Jesus is the main focus. Any sermon meant for Christians that does not include the Christ can fit perfectly in other religions that disregard Jesus Christ. Jesus is the main focus indirectly or directly when preaching the Word of God. The focus should remain relevant to the actual teaching that Christ had for the world.

Make sure that you engage your imagination. Traditional preaching approach focused on making Christians think in a particular way. However, such trends have significantly changed, and new methods that focus on the whole selves of people have become dominant. For that reason, the sermons should target on aspects such as the desire, feelings, and soul of the listener. You cannot achieve such an approach without engaging the imagination of a congregation.

Confirm whether the preaching has a clear call to action. As a hearer of Word of God, you have to feel motivated to a particular action after teaching. For instance, it should motivate you into repenting and getting baptized, pray without ceasing and other necessary living conditions of a Christian. The call for action should not highlight in the theme but should come out naturally from the conclusion or punctuation in the sermon.




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