Text-Driven Preaching: Preaching Old Testament Narrative

Join our esteemed instructors, David Christensen (ThM, DMin), founder and president of The Rephidim Project, and Mark J. Crocco (BS, MDiv), Director of Ministries for The Rephidim Project, for this transformative seminar designed to equip pastors and preachers with practical strategies for expressing what God wants to say in the Old Testament narrative so that people are transformed into Christlikeness by the power of the Spirit.

Since God is our teacher and His Word is the content of His teaching, how do we ensure that we are preaching God's Word and not our words? Do we truly believe in the sufficiency of Scripture to meet our spiritual needs today, or do we merely pay lip service to that concept?

Stories make up approximately 40% of the Old Testament. How do we preach these Old Testament stories to our video-saturated culture today? What tools can we use to unlock the truths God wants to teach us from these Old Testament narratives?

This seminar will address these questions with biblical and practical principles to help you become a better expositor of God's Word. You will learn how to preach text-driven messages, unlike much popular preaching today, which is topic-driven. This seminar will equip you with the exegetical tools to help you break down a narrative into its parts and identify the exegetical idea that unifies the story.

David Christensen (ThM, DMin), President, The Rephidim Project

David served in dual ministry for thirty years as a Bible college professor and local church pastor. He is the founder of The Rephidim Project, a ministry devoted to encouraging and equipping pastors for expository preaching. David is the author of seven books including, A Philosophy of Pastoral Preaching: Shepherding God’s People with God’s Word in One Place. He retired as preaching pastor of Galilee Baptist Church in 2018 to devote himself to encouraging pastors, missionaries, and church leaders through Bible exposition and teaching the methods of expository preaching to the next generation of preachers.

Mark J. Crocco , Director of Ministries, The Rephidim Project

Mark is the owner and president of Itegrity Leadership Development Inc. He spent fifteen years in pastoral ministry and has spent the last twenty years developing leadership in organizations. Mark is a highly sought after leadership development expert, public speaker, and author. He oversees the Crocco Catalytic Leadership Institute, which exists to create leadership materials with the goal of developing leadership. Mark speaks at many leadership conferences throughout the country, and often speaks at churches, bible conferences, and retreats. He is a graduate of Philadelphia College of Bible and Grace Theological Seminary.

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