JEM PASTORS TRAINING
April 3, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010 marks the fourth week of our pastors training in the District #2 area. Praise God that these students are trying to understand the lessons taught. Remember that these are pastors and church leaders who have little or no theological training.
We have been dealing with the course PREACHING BIBLICAL MESSAGES. There are seven steps to preaching biblical messages. Last week we completed the first step (STUDY THE TEXT). After our review, we started with the second step which is STRUCTURE THE TEXT.
In studying the text, the students were taught to observe the followings: 1. WORDS (Long words, Repeated words, and Unusual words) 2. RELATIONSHIPS (Grammatical relationship, Logical relationship, Psychological relationship, and contextual relationship) 3. LITERARY FORM (Is the passage a narrative, discourse, poetry, parable, miracle, or prophetic?)
The class was asked to study the text Matthew 28:1-10, taking into consideration all they have learned so far.
After a short break, we went into the second step to preparing biblical messages. In knowing how to structure the text, they were taught the two kinds of structure indicators: GRAMMATICAL KEY INDICATORS and CONTENT/SUBJECT INDICATORS.
After the lecture, the class was divided into five groups and given the text PS.1:1-2 to structure the passage. After 20 minutes, the groups made their presentations. The groups did well in structuring the passage of Ps. 1:1-2).
The class ended at 2:30PM with 23 persons from about ten local churches. Among them were 9 pastors, 4 evangelists and 10 other church leaders.
Kindly pray for the following:
1. Pray that God will give these students understanding
2. Pray that our vehicle will be in good running condition
3. Pray for traveling mercy
4. Pray for support to buy fuel for our vehicle
