"You Must Be Either Be Crazy or Called, If You Think You Want To Be A Pastor" (Sermon Intro)

The Sermon Title: "You Must Either Be Crazy or Called, If You Think You Want To Be A Pastor."

The Sermon Part: The Introduction. (See notes below on this Page).

The Sermon Scripture: The Text, Matthew 10: 16
The Larger Context, Matthew
10: 1-39.

The Sermon Idea: The Lord Jesus is Teaching on the "Realities of Ministry with Persecutions."
(Matthew 10: 1-39)
The Lord Jesus' First View: Matthew 10: 1-15.
The Lord Jesus' Second View: Matthew 10: 16-39.

*** The Sermon Introduction is inclusive of and involves:

(1) The Ear Catcher.

(2) What The Lord Jesus Christ is showing us.

(3) The I.R. Clark Introduction and Proposition.

(See the Text Book "Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric."
Authored by Katie Geneva Cannon.
Published by The Continuum International Publishing Inc. New York, NY.
Copyright 2002.
Read Pages 99-110.)

(4) The Lord Jesus' Proposition.

(This Sermon was Preached for Pastor Darryl K. Fields of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Arcadia, Oklahoma on August 13, 2023. Elder Allen R. Threat, III Pastor Emeritus.)