Multiple Preachers in one Service?

[Blood-Bought Pilgrim]

I recently learned about a practice known as team-preaching, in which two preachers will speak on the same topic or passage within the same worship service. They are not speaking at the same time, they do so consecutively, but essentially the time regularly allotted for the sermon is divided between them.

What do you all think of this? It feels odd to me, but I can't think of any biblical reason it is wrong necessarily.

 

[Ploutos]

I can't think offhand of a reason why that is wrong, but it sure does sound novel to me.

 

[Edward]

More staff than available work? Too much work to come up with a full sermon to fill the available time?

It would require a good bit of coordination to make sure the second guy had something new to say. Alternating weeks would make a lot more sense. Two weeks to prepare a good sermon rather than one week to prepare half a sermon. I would be interested in hearing their justification.

 

[Blood-Bought Pilgrim]

More staff than available work? Too much work to come up with a full sermon to fill the available time?

It would require a good bit of coordination to make sure the second guy had something new to say. Alternating weeks would make a lot more sense. Two weeks to prepare a good sermon rather than one week to prepare half a sermon. I would be interested in hearing their justification.

Yeah, I don't really get the reason behind it either.

 

[clawrence9008]

How frequent of a practice is this?

 

[Blood-Bought Pilgrim]

How frequent of a practice is this?

My understanding is that in the context I heard about it, it is not something the church does all of the time, just on occasion a few times per year.

 

[Polanus1561]

Some churches do a 7 last word Good Friday service with consecutive preachers taking each of Christ last words

 

[arapahoepark]

Sounds like a less chaotic Pentecostal service

 

[Ed Walsh]

What do you all think of this? It feels odd to me, but I can't think of any biblical reason it is wrong necessarily.

There's this...

‭1 Corinthians 14:26-33 KJV‬‬
[26] How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

[27] If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. [28] But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. [29] Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. [30] If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. [31] For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. [32] And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. [33] For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

 

[Blood-Bought Pilgrim]

There's this...

‭1 Corinthians 14:26-33 KJV‬‬
[26] How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

[27] If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. [28] But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. [29] Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. [30] If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. [31] For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. [32] And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. [33] For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

I did think about this, that it seems there were multiple people prophesying in services in Corinth. It's a slightly different situation but perhaps does serve as a biblical precedent of sorts.