Preaching Effectiveness Quotes

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

If people are not sharing their faith in your church, if they're not having a quiet time, if they're not living godly lives, then you need to change your style of preaching. You are obviously not seeing lives changed through the Word of God. So what is the problem? The problem isn't the Word. The problem is your preaching style.

I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world - it would be as dust in the balance.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.