Episode 6.0 Notes: How to Preach to Unchurched People

Protect the weakest link in the room.

Resist the tendency to want to sound smart.

Work hard to make every subject easy and simple to understand.

“You don’t really understand something until you can explain it simply.” -Albert Einstein

The message must be a bridge from where unchurched people are to where Jesus is.

Spend the majority of your time with leaders and the lost.

Take the time to pray and seek the Spirit to craft a clear message.

Help people understand how this applies to them today in the modern world.

Unchurched people don’t understand how the announcement applies to them if we don’t make application.

Even churched people don’t understand or think about what most Christian cliches mean.

Some Christian cliches remind people of negative views of the church.

It’s lazy on our part when we use Christian platitudes and cliches.

Unchurched people want to know the why behind what we believe and preach.

Many times as pastors we haven’t been challenged about why we believe what we believe.

Ask the hard questions of the text and the message before you preach it.

Unchurched people expect you to be real and authentic.

“Authenticity is the apologetic of our time.” -Dhati Lewis

Unchurched people expect the church to be self-righteous and fake. Authenticity surprises them.

Preach Jesus and the gospel all the time.

Every problem is a sin problem, and the answer to every sin problem is Jesus and the gospel.

How does the gospel speak to each and every situation you speak about?

Take the time to plan out your sermons and series ahead of time.

Is there anything that I’m scared to say in this message that I should say?

We have to spend substantial amount of time to think about how we are going to say something, not just what we are going to say.

Jesus always worried about the people far from God.

Jesus appealed to the people who were ostracized by the religious people.

It is arrogant of us to think that whatever we’ve been taught is what unchurched people need to hear.

“The church doesn’t exist for christians. The church is christians. Christians exist to reach unchurched people.” -Sean Sears

Have a humble heart when you preach. Have unchurched people in mind when you preach.

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