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Concordia Theological Monthly

Publication Date

6-1-1941

Document Type

Article

Keywords

case study, ministry, pastoral, prayer, ministering, sermon

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

A New Approach to Self-Improvement in Ministering to tlle Individual

Ministering to a congregation is not only preaching. I entered the ministry laboring under the false impression that it is. Didn't all my friends urge me to study for the ministry because I had won the county oratorical contest two years in succession? Didn't I learn from the Apology itself that "there is nothing which holds people with the church more effectively than a good sermon"? Didn't Luther have so many hearers because he was a good preacher? I would develop my preaching and build up a congregation by "compelling them to come in" in that way.

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

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