Preparing to Preach in Year 1

RE: CHURCH

When you first take a church, how do you discern the current spiritual needs and where to begin preaching? How do you prepare your own heart? In this episode of RE:CHURCH, Marshall Fant discusses this topic with Caleb Phelps, who has been senior pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Taylors, SC, for one year. Before that, he served six years as a senior pastor of a church in Florida. He says the groundwork laid by the GFA interim pastor who served at the church before him helped him tremendously in this new pastorate. Pastor Caleb says his mantra is taken from the counsel Paul gave to young Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:13–16: “Strap yourself into the pulpit, and preach the Word.”