Mark Driscoll concluded the Dwell London conference on the subject of Preaching Jesus, and then finished with a short Q&A session. He gave 6 points about preparing to preach:
- What does the Scripture say?
- Theological – What does it mean?
- How can I make it memorable? – a hook to hang the sermon on – connect with doctrines, big words, emotion, images, people, characters
- Apologetic – How do people resist the message? – Answer the objections
- Missional – Why does this matter to our community?
- Christological – How is Jesus the hero?
On the 6th point Driscoll went on to talk a lot about how we can preach Christ from the Old Testament by using; prophecies, Christophonies, types (Adam, Priests, Prophets, Kings), services (tested in a garden, tested in wilderness etc.), events (Passover, Day of Atonement etc.), titles of God.
Mark simply concluded by saying:
“It’s all about Jesus”, “Love Jesus”, “Talk about Jesus lots”
He said, “If it’s about Jesus, it works… and it makes up for a lot!”
He then addressed a Q&A session mainly answering questions about the role of a wife and family life in church planting ministry. He also had time for a quick jab at us Brits, he said two of our biggest weaknesses were our “fake niceness” and our “cowardice” particularly in addressing big questions – like sex. All in all great conference, watch this space for more stuff from the Acts29 and Porterbrook Network partnership…
