Welcome back to The Stoop Sessions, where we have casual, down-to-earth conversations about ministry—straight from a Baltimore stoop. Each episode unpacks topics around healthy church ministry in the inner city. In this episode, Joel and Akin continue a conversation on ecclesiology in the inner city. They turn to the topic of preaching.
In a culture of entertainment, where the task of preaching becomes nothing more than religious self-help, churches must maintain and grow in expositional preaching. Why does preaching matter? What is the difference between expositional preaching versus mere entertainment? How do pastors prepare to preach and how can church members be most ready for the Word?
Together, they make the case that preaching is not an optional ornament in an otherwise successful ministry—it’s the fountain from which spiritual life flows through the church. Joel Kurz is the Lead Pastor at The Garden Church and director of ONE HOPE. Akin Omisanmi serves as Pastor at Southwest Baptist Church, a ONE HOPE church.
Learn more about The Garden Church: thegardenbaltimore.com
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Welcome back to The Stoop Sessions, where we have casual, down-to-earth conversations about ministry—straight from a Baltimore stoop. Each episode unpacks topics around healthy church ministry in the inner city. In this episode, Joel and Akin continue a conversation on ecclesiology in the inner city. They turn to the topic of preaching.
In a culture of entertainment, where the task of preaching becomes nothing more than religious self-help, churches must maintain and grow in expositional preaching. Why does preaching matter? What is the difference between expositional preaching versus mere entertainment? How do pastors prepare to preach and how can church members be most ready for the Word?
Together, they make the case that preaching is not an optional ornament in an otherwise successful ministry—it’s the fountain from which spiritual life flows through the church. Joel Kurz is the Lead Pastor at The Garden Church and director of ONE HOPE. Akin Omisanmi serves as Pastor at Southwest Baptist Church, a ONE HOPE church.
Learn more about The Garden Church: thegardenbaltimore.com
Learn more about Southwest Baptist Church: swbcbaltimore.com
Learn more about ONE HOPE: onehope.gives
❤️ Support the show: onehope.gives/donate
Welcome back to The Stoop Sessions where we have casual conversations about ministry on the Baltimore stoop. In each episode, Joel, Stephanie, and Eric talk through different topics and occasionally bring on a friend.
In this episode, we bring on a friend! Stephanie and Eric invite Lisa LeGeorge to the stoop for a chat on evangelism. Lisa has traveled the globe and has a passion for unreached areas. Currently working at Children’s Hunger Fund, she wants to see suffering children served through Gospel-centered local churches. The conversation begins with addressing the question of "overseas missions” versus “local evangelism.” Lisa argues that it’s not an either/or but a both/and. She speaks on the benefits and limitations of para-church ministry and the need for the local church. Lisa gives tips from her own personal evangelism experience and shares how she turns random Sunday mornings at church into a new evangelistic opportunity. As both an academic and a practitioner, this episode hits on all things evangelism: from the para-church to the church; from the nations to the block; from the church’s corporate witness to personal evangelism.
Lisa LaGeorge serves as the senior director of CHF Academy at Children’s Hunger Fund. She has previously served as a professor at The Master’s University, where she met Stephanie. Stephanie Greer is a Gospel Worker funded through ONE HOPE serving with The Garden Church. Eric Hill serves as an elder at The Garden Church and is a Physical Therapist Assistant by day.
Learn more about Lisa LaGeorge at www.lisalageorge.com
Learn more about ONE HOPE: www.onehope.gives
Support the show: www.onehope.gives/donate
The Stoop Sessions
Welcome back to The Stoop Sessions, where we have casual, down-to-earth conversations about ministry—straight from a Baltimore stoop. Each episode unpacks topics around healthy church ministry in the inner city. In this episode, Joel and Akin continue a conversation on ecclesiology in the inner city. They turn to the topic of preaching.
In a culture of entertainment, where the task of preaching becomes nothing more than religious self-help, churches must maintain and grow in expositional preaching. Why does preaching matter? What is the difference between expositional preaching versus mere entertainment? How do pastors prepare to preach and how can church members be most ready for the Word?
Together, they make the case that preaching is not an optional ornament in an otherwise successful ministry—it’s the fountain from which spiritual life flows through the church. Joel Kurz is the Lead Pastor at The Garden Church and director of ONE HOPE. Akin Omisanmi serves as Pastor at Southwest Baptist Church, a ONE HOPE church.
Learn more about The Garden Church: thegardenbaltimore.com
Learn more about Southwest Baptist Church: swbcbaltimore.com
Learn more about ONE HOPE: onehope.gives
❤️ Support the show: onehope.gives/donate
