Auckland Park Theological Seminary Ordinary People / Gewone Mense

A picture guide to good preaching

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Pastor Frank Cronje, the previous principal of Auckland Park Theological Seminary (then it was still a theological college and not a seminary) met with my dad in the early 1970s and asked him to become a full-time lecturer and “to teach the AFM church how to preach”. This was oom Frank’s way of asking him to become the lecturer in Practical Theology. I was still a pre-schooler, but I knew that my dad was responsible to help students to become effective preachers and, in my mind, that was a huge task.

Original article: ats.ac.za/blog/a-picture-guide-to-good-preaching/
6 May 2025 English South Africa Christianity · Education

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