Incarnational Preaching

The past two and half years have been an interesting journey into sitting under sermons of many different pastors. I have discovered that there are some really talented teachers who are givng out tremendous biblical truth. However I have not seen very often where the one preaching is not only expressing truth but their life.

I believe good preaching takes the truth of God's word and really brings it to life. Jesus became a man so that we could see God operate in real life. I believe preaching should be the same way. Preaching is our opportunity to put flesh and bones on truth.

The average person in church will not connect the dots of truth unless they can see the truth somehow is being lived out in the life of the preacher. The Word became flesh so we could identify with the messenger as much as the message.

Church goers live a very compatmentalized life. If the message is not modeled so that they understand how it integrates into their life, then they can safely isolate it as irrrelevant.

If we want to see lives impacted with truth, then we must inject it with real life. Sometimes that means we must expose our own weaknesses, struggles, and victories.

The bottom line is that we need to be sharing enough of our own journey in our preaching so that those who hear us can identify with the preacher or so that the preacher can identfy with those who hear us.

Is it time for you to begin to do a little "incarnatinal preaching"?