What is 'A Company of Preachers'?

A Company of Preachers is a loose connection of men and women who are all keen to promote the importance of preaching at a time when this activity has received such a bad press in the UK, and also to develop their own preaching skills. This Church hosted a conference under this banner in the summer of 2005 and then also in June 2007 (details here); additionally there has been a number of Saturday breakfasts for people within easy reach of Guildford with the aim of focusing on a number of specific issues on the subject of preaching, e.g. the Authority of Scripture; Narrative Preaching; Homiletic Skills etc.

Extract from 'Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds'

The Priest in the Pulpit

David Scott

Will it last, this opening of the heart
to the Word, or will the new ways,
the film, the television, the e-mail,
dislodge us from the art of oratory?
Climbing the steps, taking off the paper clip,
remembering not to put it in my mouth,
the text, the Greek, the joke, the text again,
all this, O God, you know, as well as asking you
to make all things, especially the haste,
Respectable. As the spiral notebooks rust
along the shelves, who knows how a word
in the thickest of the sermon’s stickiest part,
might just have winged its way into the heart
of one young stranger there, and taken roost.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS:

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BREAKFAST

Saturday January 21st 2012
7.45 am to 9.30 am

Peter Morden, Tutor in Church History and Spirituality at Spurgeon's College, will lead the discussion on

‘The Bible for the Masses: the Popular Preaching of C.H. Spurgeon’

C H Spurgeon Peter says "I aim to establish Spurgeon’s importance as a preacher, explore some of the influences on him, and analyse his approach to both preaching and living the biblical text. There is lots of food for thought for preachers today in Spurgeon’s life and ministry and I hope to bring some of this out."

For some more information about Peter please click here:
http://www.spurgeons.ac.uk/Home/PeterJMorden/tabid/232/Default.aspx

If you would like to book a place at the breakfast, please let Sara Sims know by Thursday, January 19th 2012.

If you would like to be added to our contacts list, please drop an email to Sara Sims and she will make sure you get details as they become available.

At the breakfast on September 24th 2011, Rev John Woods, from Lancing Tabernacle, led the discussion: Bearing Witness - How Tom Long has helped me to listen to and preach God’s truth.

John has kindly allowed us to put his notes here, available for you to download.

For more on Tom Long you can click here.

BIG BREAKFAST 2009:

Saturday June 13th, 2009

Phil Greenslade - 'Treasures Old and New'

Ian Stackhouse with Karen Case-Green - 'Tell it Slant'

CDs (both audio and mp3 recordings) of the sessions are available to order via the CD order form which you can download by clicking here. More information available from Sara Sims on sara.sims@guildfordbaptist.org or on 01483 790252

At the breakfast on May 13th, 2007 Ian spoke about 10 tips for preachers as they prepare to give a Sunday sermon. Click here and a new window will open for you to see them.

At the breakfast on November 8th, 2008 Stuart Reid spoke on 12 tips to put life into your preaching. Click here and a new window will open for you to see them.