BIBLE COURSE PMB101

GRACESTAND LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

{GSGC BIBLE SCHOOL}

                                      

                                       

LEVEL ONE: CERTIFICATE

COURSE TITLE: PULPIT MANAGEMENT

COURSE CODE: PMB101

GRACESTAND GOSPEL CHURCH UKRAINE

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gracestandleadershipacademy@gmail.com

PULPIT MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION

Preachers, pastors and others who must perform various tasks in the pulpits of a church must be aware of proper customs. A mistake in the pulpit can result in a perceived act of disrespect or slight and even cause disorder in programming at events. The important of pulpit management goes beyond the walls of the church as visitors and members alike judge a church by how pulpit event are carried out.

 BEFORE THE PULPIT

Be conscious of yourself and be orderly, be conscious of your assignment that day and master it before climbing the pulpit. Whatever you don’t understand, ask questions to be properly informed in order not to make a mess of yourself and the church leadership. If you are not informed, you will be deformed.

DURING THE PULPIT

STEP 1

Speak slower than you think you need to, not in an overt, exaggerated manner but in a calm, deliberate manner when speaking to others. Most people speak faster than they think they are, and purposely slowing your speech will help faster a more effective communicating environment.

STEP 2

Be respectful to authority figures in the church. Default preferences and leadership to the host pastor or event leadership. Do everything you can not to project the image of talking over his or her authority. Don’t do what you were not asked to do.

STEP 3

Avoid talking about your personal, professional and church – related gripes or irritations. This will discredit you as a preacher or a minister and give the image to congregants that you are not mature and cannot be trusted with private details.

STEP 4

As a leader in your church never consent to speaking at an assignment without the approvals of both the host leader of the event and your church leadership of open integrity. Don’t loss conversations and when speaking, stay on your assigned topic.

STEP 5

Practice good hygiene on a daily basis. Conform to the requested dress code as presented by your church leadership or by the leadership of the event you are attending. Proper dressing is very important because a wrong dressing can put off the congregants. A story was told of a pastor wearing long bears while preaching and there was an old woman who kept on weeping throughout the preaching, the pastor, supposing that the woman was deeply touched by the message went to enquire from her why she was weeping during the preaching. The woman replied that seeing his long bears, she remembered her late goat with such bears.

By practicing pulpit management, you will build a reputation of the image you desire to create.

STEP 6

Please be time conscious, it’s very important. What you are saying may be very important but the question is, do you have the time to say it? Therefore, what you are saying is not as important as to whether you have the time to say it.

Secondly, you may have the time but what you are saying isn’t part of your assignment, there in the pulpit.

Thirdly, you must not exhaust your note once your time is up to maintain your integrity.

Fourthly, you will be a good minister when you don’t always exhaust your time, round up on or before your time elapse.

THE SPIRIT OF A PROPHET IS UNDER THE PROPHET’S CONTROL

Maintaining pulpit management shows that you respect God, other worshippers and the person conducting the service. It is also a way to ensure that everyone present at the service get to enjoy the service and learn the message tat is being presented.

AFTER THE PULPIT

Live by example, be the first to do what you preach, announce or said because people are watching you to see your behavior. Don’t be a leader that will say do what I say but don’t do what I do. If you cannot do what you say, you are a PHARISEE and a bad example of a leader, hence, actions speaks louder than voice.