As a young church planter, one of the things I’m working hard at is improving my preaching.  Coming out of the Acts 29 Assessment last October, one of my conditions was to find 10-12 preaching opportunities over the next year.  While I’ve been busy chipping away at those and am on track to have the condition wrapped up later this fall, I’ve also grown in my realization for the need of good, solid, constructive, yet critical feedback and evaluation.

As such, I’ve assembled a team of friends: some pastors, some lay, and at least two potential church planters to listen to my sermons and then lovingly, ruthlessly, edifyingly (probably not a real word), and critically eval my stuff.  Here’s what I asked them to agree to:

1. Roughly once a month (maybe twice a month on occasion), listen to a sermon that I point you to (or you hear live if I’m at your place).
2. As you listen, fill out the evaluation form that I have attached.
3. Provide the completed evaluation form back to me (by email or by hand) within ten days of when I point you to the sermon/you hear it live.
4. Continue this for seven months (the rest of this year).  At that time, I’ll probably change this up.

The evalution form is one I created myself based on a survey of some others including one that Dr. Chapell includes in an appendix of Christ-Centered Preaching.