I want to let you know something – I have in the last 28 years of ministry often preached on the same topics again – faith, love, prayer, all sorts of things. But I have never in the last 15 years preached on the same notes again. God led me to stop doing that. He said – Ben, if you preach on it again, study it again because when you study it again, you will get more revelation on it, and a new dimension of understanding.
I like preaching fresh, I like preaching like a homemade meal, not like a fast food burger. If I am not hunting the Word for fresh information, how can I present it to others.
Pastors, if you are not in the Word, you will become a parrot, preaching other people’s messages, your old messages, and the sermon illustrations will be from other preacher’s lives and from the TV. Nothing wrong with a little of those, but you need a testimony, you need life, you need to study the Word.
Not everyone has to do it exactly like I do it, but if you are preaching something fresh, study it fresh and watch what happens.
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