Preaching Workshop in Toluca

We left Mexico city on Friday night to get to a workshop on preaching Saturday at 10:00 am. We just had time to sleep and get to the workshop.

Preaching Workshop
We had 4 come to the preaching workshop, which is a good number. Our first task is to explain that preaching is the explanation of the text as stated in Nehemiah 8:8. Many think that preaching is something else. What that is I´s not sure.

The second thing I try to explain is that the argument of the book or passage is what is most important. Since all have had some experience in Inductive Bible Study they can see the importance of finding the argument.

We try to choose a Bible book that has the same number of chapters as people in the workshop. Each student presents a verse in relationship to one chapter. In the summer we did 2 Timothy. When the did their sermons on one verse presenting the argument of the chapter we heard the argumtment of the whole book. This was great.

We have now trained 15 with this basic workshop and have passed out 7 books by Haddon Robinson on preaching. If the leaders of the student ministry can learn to preach the impact of the student ministry will be much greater.