Where Do Preachers Keep Their Sermon Notes?
You want to preach a sermon with limited reliance on notes. If you need notes, however, you must keep them somewhere. Where do you keep them? In this article we will discuss four of these places. 1. In the Pulpit Here the preacher places the limited notes on the pulpit. When done well, the audience may not even recognize or remember that the notes are up there. However it can be a disaster when done poorly. The other day I saw a preacher who would look at his notes, leave the pulpit say a few words, walk back look at his notes, leave again. It became completely obvious that the preacher either didn’t know his manuscript or he does not have the gift to preach with limited notes. Wherever you keep your notes, you must know them well. 2. In your Bible Here the preacher tapes the notes to the Bible. Much like the previous approach, if you look too much at your notes or it becomes distracting that you are looking at your notes, it can be worse than simply reading your manuscript. Some preac
