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One of my student ministers is trying to goad me into preaching through Romans in 2010. I had to confess that in the 10 years since I’ve left college I’ve not once preached it through – or even a major section.
Why not? I’m kinda scared. It is a big letter. The argument is long and at points complex. How can I preach it in a way that lets people hold onto the big picture of the book?
So I’m after your help. Has anyone seen this done well? How can you tackle Romans and survive?
Any good resources out there?
October 12, 2009 at 11:09 am
surely it will only get harder the longer you leave it…having never done it is a great reason to tackle it, knowing that it’s not your ‘experience’ of teaching it or previous work done to prepare that will ultimately be the teacher but the holy spirit himself…
we’ve had preaching and bible studies (independent of eachother) on Romans this year and because it always intimidates me, I am so surprised that I get so much that makes sense to take away each time I read it – go for it
October 12, 2009 at 11:21 am
ps
http://www.crossroads.asn.au/catalogue.php?bid=46
October 12, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Yes, also found this series on Romans 1-8 from Gav at Christ Church St Ives family church.
Jim also helpfully commented on my facebook page
October 12, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Grab Gordon Cheng’s three excellent Interactive Bible Studies on Romans (23 studies in all) and start with those. Get your small groups to study them in advance of your sermon, which means they’ll follow your sermon more easily and deeply.
October 12, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Maybe buy Gordon a coffee & ask him how he’d do it…
Got a link on where someone might buy those studies Ian? (& can I get commission on clicks through?)
October 12, 2009 at 9:04 pm
no tips. just an encouragement… do it!
October 12, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Thanks Dave
the student ministers (Conor & Andy) & Sam (MTS) are dead keen.
I had been thinking 2 Corinthians
must blog sometime on how to work out the program & mistakes I’ve made in past on this
Michael
October 12, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Here’s a link to some notes on Romans – http://christinallthescriptures.blogspot.com/2009/10/romans.html
Romans
I hope you find these notes helpful.
God bless you.
Charlie
October 12, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Here’s a link to some notes on Romans – http://christinallthescriptures.blogspot.com/2009/10/romans.html
Romans
I hope you find them helpful.
God bless you.
Charlie
October 14, 2009 at 9:14 am
The Copacabana Club contacted me and have some thoughts on preaching Romans…
October 14, 2009 at 11:11 am
LOL – you are such a dag!
October 16, 2009 at 11:23 am
Just tell the boys they’re doing a talk somewhere in there…Sam can do chapter 9…
I put dibs on 2 Corinthians, in the unlikely event that Copacabana Bar fails to convince you. They do deliver a compelling argument.
Also Philip Jensen is talkin on Romans at City Night Church at the moment, talks would be online?
October 16, 2009 at 11:45 am
Knowing that there are online talks by PDJ, Dave MacDonald & Gav may not be a help – too tempting to listen to the masters! What is helpful though is seeing how they break it down…
October 19, 2009 at 3:40 pm
If you look here on the Barney’s Broadway website you’ll find two series on Romans by Andrew Katay and Ian Powell in 2004 and Malcolm Gill, Mike Paget and Ian Powell in 2008.
October 19, 2009 at 3:42 pm
And this is how the EU did it in 2002 and 2003.
October 20, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Encouraged to hear there are others scared to tackle it. May be encouraged to preach it some day too if you give it a go.
October 20, 2009 at 10:57 pm
And Christopher Ash has written a book on Preaching Romans in the Proclamation Trust series.