In a recent post on his blog, Pastor Brady Boyd observed: “About a year ago, I underwent a philosophical shift in the way I preach each week. For years, I was a part of a world that primarily taught sermon series on various topics for four to six weeks, each series complete with a cool logo, title and sermon bumper (the trendy video that plays right before the pastor magically appears on stage)…
My approach for the past year is to walk through books of the Bible story by story, capturing all the big ideas of the book. I have preached through Ephesians, 1 Peter, and for the past 30 weeks, through Luke. I plan to tackle Acts for the first part of 2012.
Strengths of the book approach:
1. You cannot skip over the hard topics. The past two weeks I have taught out of
2. Hermeneutics (another fancy word for studying the Bible) is embraced more completely. Who wrote the passage? Who was he talking to? Why did he use specific language? What was going on in the culture at the time?
3. You have to teach on all the topics and ideas Jesus and the apostles taught churches and followers. It builds a more complete disciple in the long run.” (Click here to read the full article.)