Preaching Teams: A Community Message
When a group of preachers with differing personalities and styles feed a flock with a consistent gospel message, the focus naturally shifts from the preacher to the gospel. The messenger becomes secondary, and the message becomes primary. We decrease. Jesus increases.
Preaching Teams: Multiplication vs. Addition
If you are a preacher who wants to pursue kingdom multiplication in your ministry, the thing you most need to reproduce is other preachers. A preaching team provides a great way to do this.
Preaching Teams Free Up Time
A preaching team frees the preacher to take the time necessary to deliver not just a good talk, but a message from God’s heart.
Preaching Teams Share the Load
The most obvious benefit for a preaching team is that it relieives the pressure on the senior pastor to carry the entire load of a church’s ministry of proclamation.
A Biblical Rationale for Preaching Teams
Although the New Testament never says, “Thou shalt preach in teams,” life in the early church certainly seems to have included multiple preachers in a congregation. Preaching teams may not be prescribed as a norm, but I believe they are at least described as a possibility – and a good one!