Thanks, Donna,

For those kind words.

Phil.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:15 AM
Subject: Re: Teaching and preaching by topic


> Hello Phil,
> Thanks for being a pastor wwho's willing ti to teach sheep how to
> study!  Radio and tv ministries can be a blessing, but they should
> never take the place of personal study.
> I'm sorry I forgot to write and wish you and  Sandy lots more happy
> years.  You both are a blessing and a role model for the rest of us.
> Thanks for sharing.
> Donna
>
> On 1/13/15, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> I agree with what you said concerning topical preaching for the most part
>> but I'll tell you what I did about a year ago.  I have probably 10 or 15,
>> naw, maybe more than that, notebooks filled with sermons.  I went through
>> several of them and saw each one was topical.  They were mostly the 
>> sermons
>> I preached in revival meetings on the road.  I carried several 2 and 3 
>> inch
>> thick Braille notebooks out to our large trash barrel, and dumped them 
>> in.
>> The notebooks I keep were those where I taught, or preach, in a series; 
>> each
>> lesson building on the one before.  Topics are ok but I always fall back 
>> to
>> that series style of expository style of teaching for some reason.  I 
>> think
>> it build spiritual characters brick by brick more than the topic type.  A
>> few more years ago, I gathered up all 1200 of cassettes in my Christian 
>> tape
>> library and set them all outside by our trash.  My son came in that day 
>> and
>> asked what all those tapes were doing outside.  I said, "I don't need 
>> them
>> any longer and I am throwing them away."  He asked if he could have them 
>> and
>> I said yes.  He put them in his garage but I don't think he ever listened 
>> to
>> any of them.  Now, before someone says I'm proud or haughty, and a know 
>> it
>> all, and that's why I threw the Braille notebooks filled with my sermons,
>> along with all my tape collections away, let me tell you all why I did 
>> it.
>> I got to the  place in my life that I wanted God to tell me what He 
>> wanted
>> me to know and if He couldn't show me, then I was going to be a spiritual
>> midget for the rest of my life.  There's hardly a day goes by I don't 
>> look
>> up a word or phrase in my Online Bible, and comparing Scripture with
>> Scripture, work on figuring out what the Lord is saying to me about my 
>> life.
>>  That's why I tossed all the material away.  In another message, I'm 
>> going
>> to explain this a little more by telling everybody what I heard being 
>> taught
>> by a well known radio preacher here in Colorado.  If I don't forget, that
>> is, haha.
>>
>> Phil.
>> Living His Name
>> WWW.SafePlaceFellowship.COM
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