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Preachers' CollegePreachers' College

May 29-31, 2013

 

Registration is now CLOSED. If you would like to be put on a waiting list for Preachers' College, please contact the Center for Preaching Office at (978)646-4190 or preaching@gcts.edu.

 

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Are you called to preach the Word of God but have not had a chance to learn how? Are you a pastor who would like to improve your preaching through some practical training?

In the spirit of C.H. Spurgeon's effective school for training preachers, the Center for Preaching is pleased to provide the Preachers' College.

The Preachers' College is designed to give training in basic homiletic principles in an intensive two and half day seminar to lay members who occasionally preach in their churches. The purpose is to provide men and women who have been called to preach with the essential tools needed to compose and present biblical, relevant, and effective sermons.

About the College

Who Should Attend

The conference will teach the basics of sermon preparation and delivery. If you are a lay member, and preach somewhat regularly, and think you might benefit from knowing well the fundamentals of preaching, this conference may be for you. We want to equip men and women who are serving as pastors and lay preachers with the ability to preach biblical, clear, relevant, and effective sermons.

Topics to be Covered

  • Choosing a Passage
  • Finding the Central Truth
  • Writing an Outline
  • Crafting Introductions and Conclusions
  • Using Illustrations
  • Principles of Effective Delivery

Goals

  • Understand what Expository preaching is and is not
  • Learn a ten-stage method for moving from text to sermon
  • Review how to do accurate exegesis
  • Learn the features of effective introductions and conclusions
  • Use support material to help accomplish your goals
  • Fellowship with others who are serving in ministry
  • Participate in "mini-sermon workshops" to sharpen your homiletics
  • Take a break from the hectic world of ministry!

 

Sample Schedule

Wednesday
12:00 p.m. Registration
1:00 p.m. Expository Preaching Defined & Text to Sermon I
4:45 p.m. Break for Dinner
5:45 p.m. Text to Sermon II
   

Thursday
8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Text to Sermon III
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Principles of Delivery
4:15 p.m. Break
4:45 p.m. BBQ Dinner
   

Friday
8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Student Presentations
12:00 p.m. Seminar Concludes

Cost
Tuition: $195- Early Registration; $225-Regular Rate (After April 26, 2013)
Cost includes all sessions, meals, snacks, and a packet of books and preaching resources.

Accommodations
There is limited housing on the Gordon-Conwell campus. It is first come, first served. For more information, please contact (978) 646-4061 or housing@gcts.edu. Otherwise, there are several nearby hotels that you can consider staying at. You can also find great deals through online travel or hotel sites.
  • Comfort Inn-North Shore: (978) 777-1700
  • Hampton Inn: 1 (800) HAMPTON or (978) 536-2020
  • Spring Hill Suites-Peabody: (978) 535-5000

Meals
The meals included in the price of tuition are Wednesday dinner and Thursday breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Transportation
All participants are expected to provide their own transportation. Gordon-Conwell is located thirty miles from Boston's Logan airport and sixty miles from the Manchester, NH airport. The train station closest to the seminary is approximately one and a half miles.

The 2013 Teachers

Dr. Scott GibsonSCOTT M. GIBSON, D. Phil.
Haddon W. Robinson Professor of Preaching and Ministry
and Director of the Center for Preaching

Scott Gibson has served as a pastor and has taught preaching at Gordon-Conwell for over two decades. He is the founder of The Center for Preaching and The Evangelical Homiletics Society. He has written Should We Preach Someone Else's Sermon? and Preaching for Special Services, as well as editing Preaching the Old Testament, The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching, and Preaching to a Shifting Culture, among other books.Through conferences and consultation, he is actively involved in training pastors to preach.


Dr. Jeffrey ArthursJEFFREY D. ARTHURS, Ph.D.
Professor of Preaching and Communication; Chair, Division of Practical Theology
 
Jeff Arthurs has a wide range of ministry and communication experience as teacher, pastor, missionary, actor, director, radio announcer and consultant. He has taught communications and homiletics for more than a decade. In addition, he also carries on an active ministry of pulpit supply, conference speaking, and writing. He has written Preaching with Variety. His passion is preaching and teaching others to preach.

 

 

MATTHEW KIM, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Preaching and Ministry

Dr. Kim brings over 10 years of preaching and teaching experience to his role at Gordon-Conwell. Most recently, he served as senior pastor of Logos Central Chapel in Denver, CO. He was also previously an adjunct professor at Denver Seminary and the youth pastor at Korean Church of Boston in Brookline, MA. Dr. Kim is the author of 7 Lessons for New Pastors: Your First Year in Ministry, and Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans: Towards a Possible Selves Contextual Homiletic.

 

More Information

For more information, contact us at preaching@gcts.edu or (978) 646-4190.