The eighth London Preachers Conference took place at Chartridge Lodge in Chesham, with 55 delegates meeting in late February: two days of thinking about local church expository preaching, alongside brothers from a range of churches but with the same convictions.
If you’re the main teaching leader of a church, how many hours a year do you think you spend preparing to teach and preach? For myself, I reckon it’s in the region of 600 hours and that’s just the main teaching forum of the whole gathered church. Those hours are sometimes painful, always a struggle, but often a joy. Our churches need us to serve them in this way.
There’s something else our churches need us to be doing though: they need us to step outside our normal routine and look at it from the outside. We need to be improving. Perhaps you have a plan for that already; maybe you read a book a year about preaching. If so, great. But my guess is that many of us don’t. Hence the London Preachers Conference.
