Communicators may get away with private sins, but not great preachers. They not only practice what they preach, they can also preach what they practice. Jack Hayford believes that the most effective style of preaching is to speak out of the context of what God is saying to your own heart. Great preachers know where they are going before they start. They know what they want their audience to remember when the sermon is finished.
Preparation is the preacher s friend.
Often the sermon title will be remembered long after the text has been forgotten. So give good thought to your sermon title. Great preachers realize that a sermon is like a surgery . The preacher plays a dual role of anesthetist who keeps the patient alive during the operation, and the doctor who performs the surgery. The anesthetist is actually more important than the surgeon.